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Colt Saved an Industry; Sulky Brought it to N.C.

Record #:
13528
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Abstract:
The story Octave Blake told was how nearly 2,500 jobs came riding into North Carolina on the pneumatic tires of a racing sulky. And how an unpromising colt met a payroll, an aging prophet introduced him to the South, and a shopping housewife sold him on a location.
Source:
The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 21 Issue 41, Mar 1954, p17-18, f