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for "Tobacco industry"
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31416
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North Carolina members of Congress have been working to save the government program that gives a support price to the tobacco leaf when it is marketed. Changes are being made to freeze the support price on the 1983 crop at the 1982 level, and to phase out allotment leasing. This would have a drastic effect on North Carolina small farms.
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29338
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Anti-tobacco sentiment has risen since cigarette smoking was blamed for thousands of deaths each year. This year the federal government made substantive reductions in its support for tobacco, which has had tremendous economic, political, and cultural importance in North Carolina. Despite this, state politicians and tobacco spokesmen have responded with little protest.
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13623
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The threat of a price ceiling, which might have greatly impaired one of North Carolina's most picturesque and important enterprises, tobacco, has been removed for the moment.
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42907
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Bright leaf tobacco has been a part of North Carolina culture since 1839, when an enslaved Caswell County man, Stephen Slade discovered a curing method for producing bright yellow leaves. the Duke family of Durham lead in mechanizing the process for cigarettes. By the mid-20th century, health related concerns on the use of tobacco began to mount.
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Jim Johnston, chairman of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, is one spokesman for the tobacco industry who uses a conciliatory approach when dealing with tobacco critics.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 14 Issue 10, Nov 1994,
p52-64, il
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12207
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Accounting for the majority of farm income within Pitt County, tobacco farming has sustained the community since 1725. Selling more flue-cured tobacco than any other county in the United States, Pitt County merchants established a market in 1891 from which to sell their goods. Initially, a one warehouse operation, membership in the Greenville Market grew to 31 different auctioneers, who, as of 1956, sold 97,367,576 pounds of tobacco, 57,161,694 pounds of which was grown locally.
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40020
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Along with education, ECU is making a difference in fields such as medicine, life sciences, engineering, technology, and business. Graduates are a particular boon to rural communities, most vulnerable to the economic and occupational challenges the region has known the past few decades. Another industry noted as a potential booster to a region without textiles and tobacco as occupational powerhouses is ecotourism.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 14 Issue 3, Spring 2016,
p20-27
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Rural-urban divide; Economic development projects--Bertie County ; Ecotourism--North Carolina, Eastern; East Carolina University--Miller School of Entrepreneurship; Rural industry; Pharmaceutical industry; Golden LEAF Foundation (Rocky Mount); Mayne Pharma; Population--North Carolina; NCEast Alliance (Greenville) ; East Carolina University--College of Business; Textile industry; Tobacco industry
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1870
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RJ Reynolds Tobacco International Inc. purchased another plant in the former Soviet Union, bringing to five the number of cigarette manufacturing plants owned by the company here. RJR's international division is far outselling the domestic division.
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38219
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Several factors were attributed to business booming between North Carolina’s Southeast, an economic development partnership, and international firms from nations such as Australia, China, and South Africa. Among the factors were its waterways, such as Wilmington’s seaport; advantageous infrastructure, such as highway connectivity; military members that are also viewed as lucrative potential employees; comparatively lower costs, such as corporate tax rate.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 38 Issue 4, April 2018 ,
p83-84, 86, 88, 90-93
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International business enterprises; International relations; Economic development; Infrastructure--North Carolina; International firms; Tourism; Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina ; NCEast Alliance (Greenville) ; Textile industry--North Carolina ; Tobacco industry; Pharmaceutical industry; Pitt County Development Commission (Greenville); Carolinas Gateway Partnership (Edgecombe County); Seaports--Wilmington
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31648
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Seventh District Representative Charles G. Rose of Fayetteville believes North Carolina tobacco farmers are not getting a fair share in the market place, and he’s supporting efforts to change that situation. In an interview, Rose discusses the Congressional Rural Caucus, rural development, tobacco allotments, and import tariffs on foreign tobacco.
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25601
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Located in Tobaccoville, a new R.J. Reynolds $800 million dollar plant is currently under construction. The new plant will cover 26 acres of land, employ 2,000 construction workers, have a cafeteria and medical facility, and produce 120 billion cigarettes a year. The Tobaccoville plant is part of a billion dollar, 10-year expansion program for Reynolds Tobacco, which employs more than 12,000 workers in Winston-Salem.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 2 Issue 24, Dec. 21-Jan 17 1984,
p4-5, por
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1198
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The Friends of Tobacco, a group of farmers, businessmen, legislators, and other tobacco advocates in the state, argues that smoking doesn't cause cancer and that the tobacco industry is being discriminated against.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 11 Issue 33, Aug 1993,
p10-11, por
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21318
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Between 1899 and 1904, Durham native Edward James Parrish lived in Japan as a representative for James B. Duke's American Tobacco Company. Parrish worked closely with the Murai Brothers Company Ltd., to improve production, financing, and marketing techniques for the tobacco company. In 1904, the Japanese Diet introduced and passed legislation that began government ownership of all tobacco manufacturing, Parrish was influential in the company receiving a good settlement with the government.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 53 Issue 4, Oct 1976,
p347-363 , il, f
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31659
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United States Senator Sam Ervin discusses the importance of North Carolina agriculture and identifies developments that threaten it. Ervin also highlights important business and trade elements that provide services to sustain farm operations, and the state’s flue cured tobacco market.
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16936
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Beacham provides background on tobacco dependency in North Carolina, stressing the importance of defining dependence in a broad way as they pursue policy options and community development projects.
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