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13260
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After a period of recovery from the 1974-75 recession, real estate in the North Carolina mountains is booming again. Parker presents information on several projects there. Although high interest rates and soaring costs exist, people have not stopped buying and contractors have not stopped building.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Jan 1982,
p12-15, 17-18, il
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13265
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For most of the 20th-century, farmers in North Carolina have depended on tobacco for a large part of their income. Tobacco holds a dominant position in the state's agricultural market, with the plant grown in 91 of the state's one 100 counties. Parker discusses challenges facing tobacco growers, including foreign imports, concerns over smoking and health, and the government's longstanding allocation system.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 2, Feb 1982,
p16-17, 19-21, il
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13266
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Parker examines the manufacturing aspects of the tobacco industry in North Carolina, where companies like RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris are spending large sums of money to stay competitive in this highly profitable industry.
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13299
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Headquartered at Mt. Gilead in Montgomery County, McRae Industries is one of four contractors in the nation that supply boots to the government. McRae got its first contract during the Vietnam War when the Army switched boot styles. At that time it had sixty employees; today McRae has 225. The company produces about 45,000 pairs of boots a month, slightly more than a third of the total industry output.
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13229
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Richard Barentine is the executive director of the Furniture Factories' Marketing Association of the South. The Southern Furniture Market is held April and October and is the largest single event held in North Carolina. His job is to let people know about the market, what it is, and what it means, not only to the state, but to the rest of the country as well.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Oct 1981,
p56-57, 58, il
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13232
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State officials are working with private enterprise to position Morehead City as one of the country's leading coal exporting facilities. The Morehead City coal terminal is the first new coal facility on the East Coast built especially to meet the growing demands of the world export market. Parker discusses what is happening there presently and what might happen in the future.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Nov 1981,
p18-25, il
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13258
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Brad Ragan, Jr. is president, chairman, and CEO of Brad Ragan Inc., a company founded by his father. It is one of the thirty largest companies in North Carolina with revenues in 1981 of $163 million. The company employs 1,600 in subsidiaries from Alaska to Florida. Although the company sells tires to the public in thirty-eight stores in the Carolinas, a large source of its incomes comes from sales of massive tires used on heavy equipment by mining and road construction companies. Brad Ragan Inc. is the world's largest retreader of such off-the-road tires.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 3, Dec 1981,
p45-46, por
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