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Earlier this year, Rebecca Williams with grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council and N.C. arts Council, completed her documentary film on the story of Beacon Manufacturing in Swannanoa. The facility, built in 1936, was destroyed by fire in 2003. She is hoping it will air on public television and in museums and schools in the coming months. Beacon was once the nation's largest blanket mill. Williams film is entitled "Blanket Town".
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Wehn Dale Halton took over as preident of Charlotte's Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. in 1981, she was a rare female CEO. The franchise originally started by her grandparents in 1905, was nearly insolvent at the time Halton arrived on the scene. By the end of Halton's tenure and its sale to Pepsi Bottling Group in 2005, the business had become the ninth largest bottler in the nation.
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