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North Carolina's labor force has been excelling in acquiring new skills and techniques to keep up with the rapidly growing and changing industrial and manufacturing climate of the state. Especially with the fields of electronics and electrical products, which there has been little experience in the state in the past, North Carolinians are quickly stepping up and learning the tricks and tools of the trade.
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Emblematic of the state of North Carolina's electrical industries, Western Electric, which began in 1946, now has five plants in the state in Winston-Salem, Burlington, and Greensboro. With extensive facilities, Western Electric employs over 11,000 employees who produce parts for systems such as the Nike guided missile system.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 13 Issue 6, November 1955,
p28-30, 32, 35, 106, por
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30521
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With the rapid expansion of industry in North Carolina, emphasis has also been on the need for road modernization. The network of state-supported highways totals nearly 70,000 miles, the largest state-operated system in the country. Although initially suffering from being unable to keep up with the pace of growth in the state, the highway system is beginning to reach modern level.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 13 Issue 6, November 1955,
p36, 38, 40, 107, por
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30522
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Named the 'First Temple of the Atom,' the nuclear reactor at North Carolina State College is the first college-owned reactor for atomic research in the United States. The reactor is being used to train in the field of nuclear engineering, provide research for graduate students and faculty in radiation experiments for biology, chemistry, physics, and medicine.
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30529
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General Electric Company's decentralization program has brought four plants to North Carolina. Along with bringing diversification of industry to the state, General Electric Company's new plants are bringing large investments and space, and jobs making electric light wires, automatic blankets and heating pads, outdoor lighting, and transformers.
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Superior Cable Company now operates a self-sufficient operation in Hickory, North Carolina. The plant is also the first and only manufacturing plant outside the northeast to be devoted exclusively to the production of all-plastic insulated and sheathed communication cables.
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30535
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Three large privately-owned power companies, along with several smaller operations, provide North Carolina's industrial and civilian populations with electric power services. In anticipation of the growing power needs for the coming years, these companies are turning to alternative methods of providing power, such as hydro-electric mechanisms.
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30538
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Along with North Carolina's pioneering in the construction of a primary network of highways, the state is also the home to a mammoth business of motor truck transportation. Covering the eastern United States, motor carriers from North Carolina transport a variety of industrial goods through dozens of large trucking companies.
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North Carolina is known for its pioneering efforts in building railroads, seaports, and airlines. Between 1800 and 1837, North Carolina sponsored and owned the longest span of railroad in the world; this developed into the statewide system known today, with larger systems extending into other regions of the United States for both passenger and freight transport. Additionally, the state's ports are handling the ever-increasing import and export tonnage of industrial products along the eastern seaboard. Further, air transport in North Carolina is now fed by six lines, with large centers in several regions of the state.
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30543
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A new travel pattern has been constructed in the heavily forested mountains west of Asheville, North Carolina. New and newly improved loop routes are linking famous attractions such as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Nantahala and Cullasaja Gorges, Nantahal and Pisgah National Forests, Fontana Lake, and Cherokee Indian country.
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Banking in North Carolina is over 151 years old, and for a large portion of that time, bankers have had close ties to industry in the state. In addition to being well and conservatively managed, banks have also shown rapid growth, tripling assets in insurance and savings and loans.
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30545
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The International Resistance Company is one of the fastest growing and world's largest manufacturers of resistors. With rapid expansion in producing electrical circuits, the company built a plant in the later half of 1952 in Asheville, North Carolina. The company, with another plant in Boone, has over 360 employees of which, at its own expense, it provides full coverage insurance and health care.
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30546
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The Asheville Division of Kearfott Company, Inc. produces precision electronic components for aircraft instrumentation. A new addition to the progressive manufacturer is a facility on Black Mountain Highway which will produce small instrument motors of less than two inches.
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30547
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In the northwest corner of North Carolina, new horizons are taking place in the rapidly expanding field of electronics. In the Blue Ridge country, a modern branch plant of the Sprague Electric Company, the world's largest manufacturer of capacitors, is setting a record for growth. The Ashe County plant will eventually employ 250 persons in the manufacture of dry electrolytic capacitors.
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The Pyramid Electric Company, one of America's fastest growing electric plants, is now located in Gastonia, North Carolina thanks to a newspaper advertisement in a New York paper by the Gastonia Industrial Diversification Commission. Pyramid manufactures electronic capacitors for a wide variety of electrical and electronic equipment, also providing filters and suppressors to companies such as RCA, General Electric, Westinghouse, Sylvania, Magnavox, and other big electronic names.
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