 With its reputation clearly on the rise, R.P. Carbone received its first big break just prior to World War II when it was contracted to construct two major facilities at Cleveland Hopkins airport for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the precursor of NASA. After the war, Rosario's sons, Alphonso and Dominic, joined the company as the boom times continued. In the late 1940s, R.P. Carbone built the state's first postwar public school, and the firm also won the contract for a new Euclid high school, at an amazing - for 1948 - $4 million.
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