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Rollins worked for Standard-Coosa-Thatcher, a textile mill in Chattanooga, Tennessee for 15 years, then for the Hercules Power Company as a TNT supervisor.<ref name=Orkin />
 
He returned to Ringgold in 1945, and with his wife and younger brother began to rebuild a mineral springs resort. He then started a radio station to provide cheaper advertising for his brother’sbrother's Virginia automobile dealership. Rollins Broadcasting was formed in 1948, and grew to control ten radio and four television stations.<ref name=Orkin />
 
In 1964, with company annual revenues of $9&nbsp;million, he borrowed $60&nbsp;million in the first [[leveraged buyout]] in the US to buy [[Orkin]] from its family owners, and move into the [[pest control]] business.<ref name=Orkin />