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11132
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Shell Oil Company has over 1,400 service stations in North Carolina. This article contains information on other activities the company is involved in around the state.
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11133
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Railroading began in North Carolina in 1833 when fifteen miles of track were laid from the Virginia border to the town of Weldon. Other construction would soon follow. Today, the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, which came into being on July 1, 1967, has one-sixth of its total mileage, or 1,600 miles, in the state. Seaboard employs over 4,000 people with an annual payroll of $44 million.
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11134
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Moss Trucking Company, headquartered in Charlotte, and its affiliate, McLeod Trucking and Rigging Company, has a reputation for being one of the nation's biggest and best specialized movers. The company moves everything from locomotives to the White House Christmas tree.
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Richard B. Johnson is president of American Drew, Inc., located in North Wilkesboro. Originally a casket company, Johnson's father Andrew and three partners decided to go into the furniture business and founded the American Furniture Company in 1972. Today American Drew employs around nine hundred and had nationwide sales of over $19 million in 1971.
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11137
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A. H. Galloway, chairman and CEO of the newly created RJ Reynolds Industries, Inc., is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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11138
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W. Herbert Weatherspoon was president of the North Carolina Citizens Association from 1961-1962. From 1953 to 1968 he served without break as the treasurer of the Association, making him the only dual officeholder in the history of the organization.
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11139
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Leo J. Heer has been managing director of the Southern Furniture Exhibition Building in High Point for nineteen years, starting in 1953. Prior to this he had worked for the National Retail Furniture Association since 1938 as editor of the National Furniture Review and as director of the merchandising division. Heer will retire from his present position on November 1, 1972.
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11141
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L. R. Bowers, president and CEO of Waccamaw Bank since 1966 and president of United Carolina Bancshares Corporation since 1970, is featured in this month's We The People Magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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11142
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Henry E. Richter of IBM is featured in this month's We The People Magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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11144
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This article presents information on We the People of North Carolina magazine\r\ntwo decades of manufacturing history in North Carolina. The company has four manufacturing installations at Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Raleigh, and Elizabeth City with a total of almost two million square feet of plant space. Thousands of employees earn an annual payroll of over $25 million, and the estimated value of products shipped from the plants in 1973 is $138 million.
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11145
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OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, was passed by Congress in 1970 and signed into law by President Nixon. This article presents information on the law's implications for North Carolina.
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11146
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Greensboro's Odell Hardware Company, which opened for business January 1, 1872, is celebrating its one hundredth year in business. J. A. Odell, his brother J. M. Odell, and W. H. Ragan started the company. This article highlights events in the company's growth and development.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 30 Issue 11, Nov 1972,
p130-132, 255, il, por
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11147
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When the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill founded the UNC Press in 1922, there were then only three state supported university presses in existence - the universities of Illinois, Washington, and California. UNC Press published its first book in 1923, and since then about 1,500 more titles have been issued, with some 700 still in print. Five men have served as directors of the press, including Matthew Hodgson, the current director.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 30 Issue 11, Nov 1972,
p134-135, 244-245, il, por
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11170
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This article contains information on paintings and sculptures in the North Carolina Museum of Art. This month's work is THE ADORATION OF THE CHILD by Tiziano Vecellio.
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11172
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Carolina Enterprises, Inc., which came to Tarboro in Edgecombe County over a decade ago, is one of eastern North Carolina's largest manufacturing industries. Each year the huge plastics plant makes enough Santas, sleighs, reindeer, and other Christmas decorations to fill 2,300 freight cars and at least that many trucks. The company employs over 900 with an annual payroll of $6 million.
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