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4364
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In North Carolina the retail auto industry is a $15 billion enterprise. The industry generates 20 percent of the state's retail sales tax and ranks ninth nationally in the number of car dealerships. Eighteen more workers are employed per dealer than the national average. While dealerships declined from 50,000 to 20,000 nationally between 1949 and 1999, they remain a continuing, successful small business in the Southeast.
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8934
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After World War II, Americans wanted to buy consumer goods such as automobiles. Even though buyers had the money, however, they could not immediately get a car because of great demand. That is, unless they offered a bribe to the dealer who would let them buy a showroom car. Jeter tells a story of how one Greensboro man beat the car dealers at their own game.
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10987
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Bessie B. Ballentine, who is retiring at the end of 1970, has been the Executive Secretary of the North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association since its founding in 1935. At that time she was the only employee; today the association has a staff of twenty. Starting with 160 members, the association's membership currently approaches 1,000. It is known as one of the most successful and effective trade organizations in the state, with much of the credit going to Mrs. Ballentine.
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