Please view job 1848 and check to see if the transcripts match up with the audio oral history for OH0062.1.a.
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| 57368 | OH62.1.0 | C. Stuart Carr Jr. Oral History Interview | 19800915 | Carr was born in Greenville, N.C., in 1910 and raised in Norfolk, Va. He returned to Greenville at the beginning of the Depression and worked at the Greenville Fertilizer Company selling fertilizer at retail prices to farmers and loaning them cash. He then worked with the E. B. Ficklen Tobacco Company in Greenville (1938-1950) with responsibility for the Carolina Leaf Tobacco Company, a joint operation of Ficklen Tobacco Company and the G. R. Garrett Company of Rocky Mount, N.C. Carolina Leaf sold American tobacco to Chinese manufacturers. In 1950, Carr went to E. V. Webb and Co. in Kinston, N.C., staying with them until he left in 1956 to work for Universal Leaf Tobacco Co. in Richmond, VA. Carr remained with Universal until he retired in 1975. He died in Richmond, VA, on December 6, 1997. Carr first discusses the effect of the Depression on tobacco farmers in Eastern North Carolina, who had experienced a pre-Depression era of high tobacco sale prices. He mentions the way in which farm families helped each other by sharing chores and talks about the Hoover cart, used by families to come into town in the early Depression years. Right after joining Ficklen Tobacco Co., Carr spent six months in Shanghai, China, becoming familiar with Carolina Leaf Tobacco Co. He describes the competition between the companies selling to the Chinese manufacturing companies and the turmoil in China in 1938 with a strong Japanese presence. While all the manufacturing took place inside the International Settlement, the American companies had storage buildings outside the settlement which the Japanese did not interfere with. Carr notes that employees of the British-American Tobacco Company were sent to plants up country and describes some of their living conditions. For much of the remainder of the interview, Carr details life in China for company employees and their families, and discusses at length the business of American companies selling tobacco in China. He talks about the difficulty of small companies entering the international market; the use of filler tobacco and stems by the Chinese manufacturers; the cigarette as a status symbol with the Chinese picking up butts from the street to use the remaining tobacco for "coolie" cigarettes; the importance of "face;" and the difficulty of getting foreign exchange with companies in Japanese-held Manchuria (called Manchukuo by the Japanese). Carr describes the Shanghai nightlife, the use of contaminated whiskey, gambling, the prices of clothes, and the exchange with the tael and the "mex" dollar. Carr notes the increasing presence of the Japanese in 1941 and that B.A.T. employees left in China after the attack on Pearl Harbor were detained in concentration camps before being exchanged for Japanese prisoners. He left China in 1941 shortly before Pearl Harbor was bombed. He also mentions how Universal lost all their assets with the takeover of the Communists after World War II. From a period of a high volume market, the war signaled a substantially reduced market with no foreign exchange for tobacco. On a more contemporary note, Mr. Carr discusses the Thai people, their position in the tobacco market, and the switching of tobacco after it is sold. He also mentions an arrangement to have American cigarettes made in China for tourists by Reynolds and Phillip Morris (ca. 1980) and the monopoly these manufacturers will have. Carr notes that China grows so much tobacco that it is an exporter, a fact which helps them in their foreign exchange.
Please view job 1848. PID 00039540 1 cassette. Tascam - RME Fireface - Cubase Pro 8.5
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| 49584 | OH64.1.0 | Carol Leigh Humphries Oral History Interview | 19801128 | Carol Leigh Humphries, a native of Person County, N. C., graduated from East Carolina Teachers College (E.C.U.) in 1944. She became involved in the home mission work of the Southern Baptist denomination and worked with church programs in Wilmington, N.C., Louisville, Kentucky, and Dallas, Texas. In 1951 she was appointed by the Baptist Foreign Mission Board to work in Nigeria, where she has remained since her arrival there early in 1952. In this interview conducted during one of her furloughs home, she discusses her background in North Carolina, her work in Baptist missions in the United States, and her appointment to Africa. Topics of discussion include educational work in Nigeria, transition of Nigeria to an independent country, dress and customs of natives, attitude of Nigerians toward foreigners, work as W.M.U. director for Northern Nigeria, influence of Moslem religion in the region, and the growth of the Baptist denomination.
1 cassette. Sony - RME Fireface - Cubase Pro 8.5 MISSING AUDIO
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| 49585 | OH65.1.0 | Elma J. Ashby Oral History Interview | 19810206 | Elma J. Ashby, a native of Tunneltown, West Virginia, spent twenty seven years as a Methodist missionary in Rhodesia. In this interview she recounts her background and eduction, her appointment as missionary to China in 1940 and her return to the U.S. due to the outbreak of World War I I, and her subsequent appointment to work in Africa. Miss Ashby remained in Rhodesia from 1945 until 1972 where she worked in nurses training. Topics discussed include her work as a nurse, impressions of the Congo and Rhodesia, medical care among the natives, training of native nurses and other medical personnel, economic and physical factors in Rhodesian life, hospital construction, Zimbabwe independence, and impressions of conditions in that country during the past decade.
2 cassettes. Cassette 1 Technics - Aphex - RME Fireface - Cubase Pro 8.5. Cassette 2 Tascam - RME Fireface - Cubase Pro 8.5
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| 49586 | OH66.1.0; OH66.2.0 | Annimae White Oral History Interview | 19810206 | Annimae White, a native of Thomaston, Georgia, served as a Methodist missionary to the Congo for thirty five years. Included in this interview are discussions of her background in rural Georgia, education at Scarritt and Peabody University, assignment to Africa, and her life there between 1930 and 1965. African topics include descriptions of travel up the Congo by riverboat, life in a mud hut at Tunda Station, experiences at a teacher training school at Wembo Nyama, difficulties of reaching home for 1945 furlough, and studies at Columbia University and in Paris. Also of major interest are accounts of the tribal wars, the Congolese Rebellion (1960-1961), evacuation to Rhodesia, and her final years of service at Kituta.
2 cassettes. Sony - RME Fireface - Cubase Pro 8.5
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| 49587 | OH67.1.0; OH67.2.0; OH67.3.0; OH67.4.0 | M. Louise Avett Oral History Interview | 19810206 | M. Louise Avett, a native of Norwood, N.C., attended Davenport College, Duke University and Scarritt College. She was assigned to mainland China in 1932 and remained there until 1945 when she returned to the U.S. In 1960 she was assigned to serve in Hong Kong where she taught until retirement in 1970. Topics of discussion include educational work in Soochow, her transfer to West China in 1941 and her work there during World War II, and conditions in Hong Kong during the 1960s. Details are provided for life among the Chinese people, experiences in rural western China, social and cultural observances, Japanese invasion, travel, food, local customs, airlift to India, and experiences in that country enroute home.
4 cassettes: 1)Technics - Aphex - RME Fireface - Cubase Pro 8.5 - 2)Tascam- RME Fireface - Cubase Pro 8.5 - 3)Sony - RME Fireface - Cubase Pro 8.5 - 4)Technics - Aphex - RME Fireface - Cubase Pro 8.5
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