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Cotton mills accounted for a large portion of Richmond County's industry including the Great Falls Mill, Roberdel Manufacturing Company, Pee Dee Manufacturing Company, Entwistle Manufacturing Company, South Union Mills, Midway Mills, Steele's Mills, and Hannah Pickett Mills. The Hannah Pickett Mills processed the greatest amount of cotton with 3,000 looms with a total spindlage of 103,000. Other industries included agriculture including dairy farms and orchards. Electricity also contributed with hydroelectric dams along the Pee Dee River.
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Kinston served as county seat and industrial center for Lenoir County. The Boney Machine Company located in Kinston manufactured screws used in airplane construction. Two shirt companies, Kinston Manufacturing Company and Atlas & Lenoir Shirt Company, sewed garments. Tobacco was also a large industry for Kinston, noted for its bright-leaf tobacco. Cotton and lumber mills also contributed to Kinston's industries.
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There are forty-eight general assemblies in the United States, but North Carolina is the only one that has a woman for principal clerk: Mrs. Annie E. Cooper.
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Ecusta Paper Corporation, a unique industry located at Pisgah Forest, near Brevard, Transylvania County, recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. It is one of the most interesting plants, making paper for cigarettes, and providing the area with numerous jobs.
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This article marks the death of Sergeant Ed Halyburton, one of North Carolina's outstanding heroes during World War I, being the first American captured by Germans. He was from Taylorsville, Alexander County and in 1932, Liberty Magazine published a series of articles about his experiences: \"Shoot and Be Damned!\"
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Tobacco was king in Pitt County during the 1940s and produced more than any other county in the state. Bright-leaf tobacco is marketed in the county and served as the second largest in the country. Five companies processed tobacco in Greenville: Export Tobacco Company, Imperial Tobacco Company, Greenville Tobacco Company, Person-Garrett Company and E. B. Ficklen Company. The tobacco was grown in neighboring towns of Farmville and Bethel. Other Greenville manufactures consisted of: Greenville Spinners, Greenville Hosiery Mill, Garriss-Evans Lumber Company, North Side Lumber Company, Eureka Lumber Company, Perkins Lumber Company, and Sellers Brick Company. There were fertilizer plants in Greenville and Farmville.
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In addition to numerous occasions when he merely passed through the state, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made four formal visits to North Carolina during his tenure of office.
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Fisheries and opportunities stemming from fisheries constituted the bulk of Carteret County's industry. Centered in Morehead City, business focused on fishing included the Wallace Fisheries, Carteret Fish and Oil Company, Gordon C. Willis Company, and R. R. Barbour and Otis Purefoy. The Bell-Wallace Shipyard specialized in ship repairs for the government and the Morehead City Port Terminal was run by the Navy. A non-water related industry was the M. H. Willis Lumber Company.
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The town of Hemp underwent a name change in the 1940s. It was to be renamed Robbins after the town's biggest supporter, Karl Robbins. He was a prominent member of the textile industry and transplanted his industry in Hemp. Mr. Robbins purchased the Pinehurst Cloth Mill in September 1930 and through his dedication and hard work provided employment for Hemp's citizens even through the depression. Pinehurst Cloth Mills became the town's largest plant and began the renaming trend in early 1943 by changing its name to Robbins.
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14843
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An oil well near Morehead City is already down several hundred feet. Geologists claim that prospects are excellent for striking oil in this section of the state.
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The growth of the non-profit civic service organization, Hospital Saving Association, in North Carolina has been remarkable, as has the entire Blue Cross movement in the United States.
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One of the most interesting projects now in operation is located in Belgrade south of New Bern. Four years ago, the Superior Stone Company of Raleigh discovered a huge deposit of shell-rock in that section. They obtained the necessary rights and then proceeded to install equipment for getting the rock out, and in a short time thousands of tons of the rock were being shipped to various sections of eastern North Carolina where there is big demand for it.
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Biltmore Dairy Farms constitute one of the outstanding projects of their kind in the world: more than 1,000 registered Jersey cows are in the various herds on the farms!
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Asheville was the hub of Buncombe County industry. It featured no less than sixty manufacturing plants and employed more than 15,000 people. Five bottling companies were located in the greater Asheville area, including a Coca-Cola and Nehi plant. Important industries were also located outside of Asheville. Enka, located six miles west of Asheville, was home to one of the largest factories in the South, the American Enka Corporation, where workers spun rayon thread from spruce pulp. The Beacon Manufacturing Company, located in Swannanoa, produced blankets that sold worldwide.
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In the 1940s, Gaston County reformed its historic image as one of the South's corn whiskey capitals by replacing distilleries with plants. The textile industry aided this endeavor and soon Gaston held the distinction \"combed yarn center of America.\" By 1943, Gaston County had 106 mills, 43 alone in Gastonia, the country seat. Giants of the textile industry included: Firestone Tire & Rubber Company (which manufactured fabric for tires), Cramer group, and Textiles, Inc. all located in Gastonia city limits. The industry touched other Gaston towns including: Cherryville, Mount Holly, Belmont, and Lowell.
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