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Boating Industry's Landlocked Giant

Record #:
10463
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Abstract:
Although he was 200 miles from the ocean, Willis H. Slane Jr., a High Point businessman and sportsman, founded the Hatteras Yacht Company in 1959. Eight years later the company has a workforce of 300, revenues of $10.4 million in 1966, and production of better than one yacht a day.
Source:
We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 25 Issue 6, Nov 1967, p125, 185, il, por