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30947
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Despite a decline in spindles throughout the United States, Gaston County's textile industry has remained constant and represents over 6% of all those in the country. In addition to being the leader in the textile industry, Gaston County is also diversifying, both within the textile industry and outside of it. Along with a myriad of textiles, Gaston County also manufactures industrial chemicals, plastics, electrical goods, and metalworking forms.
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30949
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Hickory, North Carolina can look back at its industrial history with pride thanks to the active work of the Chamber of Commerce. Catawba County, home of Hickory, ranks third in the state for new industries, and this growth dates back to the 1920s when the Chamber of Commerce began promoting the cultural, commercial, and industrial assets of the region.
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30950
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Salisbury and the Rowan County area of North Carolina has seen manufacture of varied products through diversified industry since 1950. Among those products are asphalt, upholstered furniture, custom hydraulic machinery, ceramics machinery, steel, telephone, and the Veterans Administration Hospital.
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30951
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In Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, where the mountains come into view, substantial development of old and new industries has increased over the past five years. Major industrial developments have included the $1 million expansion of the Drexel Furniture Company plant, the largest poultry processing plant in North Carolina--Breeden's Poultry and Egg Company, Brown Cabinet Works, Burke Farmers Dairy, and Wolverine Finishes Company.
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30952
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Statesville, North Carolina has landed quite a few new industries in the past five years. The two latest industries include the C. Howard Hunt Pen Company and William T. Burnett Company, manufacturer of cotton batting and foam rubber. They join industries that manufacture technical and institutional furniture, metal culverts, toys, and wool. These industries represent a capital over over $5 million, employing 1200 people.
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30953
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The Greensboro Division of the Guilford College will open early next spring thanks to the use of structural steel. Fabricated by the Carolina Steel and Iron Company of Greensboro, North Carolina, the Evening College contains 75 tons of structural steel, and will provide educational instruction and specialized training for high school, business, college, teacher training, and adult education.
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30956
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Organized in 1938, the Sanford, North Carolina Chamber of Commerce includes membership of 145 firms and business establishments. These businesses include recent expansions of manufacturing in ladies lingerie, electronics equipment, furniture, woodworking, and food processing.
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30960
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Located seventeen miles east of Raleigh, Wendell, North Carolina is best known as a progressive tobacco market. But it also has other thriving industries in poultry processing, furniture, and shorts and shirts. The progressive and friendly community draws a labor of 10800, particularly in textiles, electronics, food, concrete, and woodworking.
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30961
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In 1907, Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company opened in Raleigh with capital and surplus totaling $500,000. Since the first policy was issued, the company has extended its influence over a large portion of the United States and reached its first billion dollars in 1951. As of 1958, the company's assets stand at $1,752,844,369.
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30962
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During the past few years two new industrial firms have begun operation in Edenton, North Carolina. Both are lumber companies that collectively employ 170 people in both mill and timbering operations. The companies were drawn to Edenton by the Chamber of Commerce and local community that assisted the development of current and expanding industries.
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30963
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A recent study of sale tax collections provides grounds for the belief that business conditions will be favorable for the liberal spending of the 1959 North Carolina General Assembly budget. Improvements in the business, reflected in sales tax collections, was dramatic in the first quarter of 1959, but the State will have to collect over $283 million for all years of the biennium to 1961 to be able to pay out appropriations in full.
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30964
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North Carolina has four of the 100 top selling corporations in the United States. These corporations have sales in the billions of dollars and are focused in manufacturing, particularly petroleum production and refinement, automobile manufacturing, retail and wholesale trade, railroad systems, and public utilities.
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30969
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A recent study by the department of Tax Research examines taxes levied on real and personal property on fifty-five large cities in North Carolina. The study reveals that the highest property tax rates levied are very conservative when measured against the much lower rate that would be needed if all property were on the books at or near market value.
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30970
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Despite adverse weather conditions in 1959, North Carolina's farm production was good for the year. However, decreased prices cut so sharply into farm income that it has been estimated the total will be about $50 million below the previous year.
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30971
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Beside the old blacktop highway on the Dare County, North Carolina beaches, the new $888,000 paved road has opened to traffic. It extends form Southern Shores at Kitty Hawk to Kill Devil Hills, connecting with the new scenic highway built by Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
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