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10377
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The article contains information on the Hanes Hosiery Mills Company, its $27 million expansion program at Winston-Salem, and its rise to become the world's largest producers of women's hosiery.
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10378
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The article presents information on Henredon Furniture Industries, located in Morganton. The company is one of the state's newer furniture makers, and it has attained a national reputation. Work on the site began in 1945, with a plant completion in 1946, and first furniture pieces shipped in 1947.
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10384
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Chemstrand Research Center, Inc. is the first occupant of the Research Triangle Park and is primarily engaged in polymer research. Dr. D. W. Chaney is the executive director of the center.
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10385
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The Masland Duraleather Company, founded in Philadelphia in 1914 by Walter E. Masland, manufactured pyroxylin coated fabric. Today the company is recognized as the leader in the field. The company's newest plant, which will open in Mocksville, will be the largest and most modern vinyl fabric plant in the South.
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Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (PPG) opened its latest fiber glass plant at Shelby in 1959. The PPG Carolina plant is the world's largest producer of fiber glass yarn employing the direct melt system exclusively. The plant is designed for twenty-four melting furnaces.
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Drexel Furniture is a homegrown North Carolina Company. Founded by Sam Huffman at Drexel in November 1903, the company began with one plant and fifty employees. Today, the company has eight plants and 2,600 employees making quality living room, dining room, and bedroom furniture.
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10415
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Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., with general offices located in Spray in Rockingham County, is a major producer of quality textiles. The company operates nine mills, with five in the area of Spray, and employs over 6,000 workers. The company's two nationally known brands are Fieldcrest and Karastan. Fieldcrest is the only company in the nation with a complete line of domestic products for bed and bath, including blankets, sheets, bedspreads, towels, and bath rugs.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 19 Issue 6, Nov 1961,
p96-97, 163-164, il, por
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The Chatham Manufacturing Company was founded in Elkin in Surry County in 1877. Since then the company has earned a reputation for blankets, upholstery material, apparel cloth, and yarns used in other textile plants. Chatham employs around 3,500; many have fathers and grandfathers who worked for the company.
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The General Electric Company operates four plants at Asheboro, Goldsboro, Hendersonville, and Hickory, with a combined factory space of 853,000 square-feet. Products range from lamp bulb components to distribution transformers. Information on products from each plant is included.
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Swift & Company opened its first meat packing company in Wilson in 1959. Since then the workforce has increased from an initial 250 to about 350. The plant serves North Carolina and parts of South Carolina and Virginia. Over 1,200 head of mixed livestock are processed daily.
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The Pomona Terra-Cotta Company of Greensboro is among the nation's largest producers of vitrified clay sewer pipe and building products. Founded in 1886, the parent company plant and headquarters still occupy the same site upon which the firm was established.
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Blue Bell Inc, with headquarters and manufacturing plants in Greensboro, and others plants in Stokesdale and Lenoir, as well as plants in seven other states, ranks as one of the leading garment producers in the country. Primarily a maker of work clothes until after World War II, the company has diversified to make clothing for the entire family.
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10422
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Founded in 1904 in Siler City, the Boling Chair Company makes chairs for offices, schools, homes, and other institutions. The chairs are sold in all fifty states and many foreign countries.
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10423
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James Spencer Love came to North Carolina seeking a job in 1919. Four years later he owned the Gastonia Mill and began a textile empire that at his death on January 20, 1962, included 147 plants in eighteen states and seven foreign countries. Around half of the plants and employees are located in the state.
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10424
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Ideal Cement Company has formally dedicated its new North Carolina plant at Castle Hayne. The storage, packing and bulk shipping facilities are complete. The cement plant is under construction and scheduled for completion in June 1963.
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