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10124
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Rogers recounts the life of Julian Price, who rose from a dollar-a-day railroad telegrapher for the Southern Railroad to the presidency of the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company.
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10472
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Harold W. Whitcomb, Board Chairman and Chairman of the Executive Committee for Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. in Eden, is featured in We The People Magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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10475
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Nello L. Teer, Jr., president of Nello L. Teer Company and its affiliates, is featured in WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S \"North Carolina Businessman in the News\". The company owns its own railroad (Durham and Southern); operates a large stone quarrying and crushing business; and a construction company. Nello L. Teer Sr. started the business in 1909 with a team of mules.
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10563
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The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame will induct four outstanding business leaders in the fall of 2008. They are John Crosland, Jr. (Crosland); Robert Ingram (Glaxo-SmithKline); Jerry Richardson (Carolina Panthers NFL Football Team); and Edward Smith Jr. (Grady-White Boats).
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10964
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E. N. Richards is president of E. N. Richards and Associates, a business name under which dozens of corporations have constructed thousands of homes, apartments, shopping centers and other structures all over North Carolina and in parts of Virginia. Raleigh's North Hills Shopping Center was one of his projects.
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10985
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The Bryan brothers, Sampson County natives, are highly successful businessmen in eastern North Carolina. William (Jacksonville) is in banking; Raymond (Goldsboro) construction; Robert (Goldsboro) oil jobberships; Norwood (Fayetteville) automobile dealership; and Bryon (Mount Olive) lumber and wood products.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 28 Issue 7, July 1970,
p11-12, 14, 102-103, por
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11052
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Milton E. Harrington, president and chief executive officer of Liggett & Myers Incorporated of Durham, is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S North Carolina Businessman in the News. Harrington, a native of Pitt County, joined the old Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company in 1934 as a leaf supervisor.
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11056
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Clyde W. Gordon of Alamance County at age sixty-eight is rounding out a distinguished career in the textile industry. Gordon is currently Secretary-Treasurer of the Collins-Aikman Corporation's Monarch Division at Graham. He is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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11060
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Glenn E. Anderson, president of Raleigh-based Carolina Securities Corporation, is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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11062
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J. Lloyd Langdon, a native of Johnston County, is president of the Dairy Division of Pet Incorporated. He is also a corporate vice president of Pet, which is headquartered in St. Louis. Langdon is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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11072
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Felix Harvey of Kinston is featured in this month's We The People Magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News. He is a big businessman, as in being Chairman of the Board and recently-retired president of Georgia International Corporation in Atlanta, and a small businessman in Kinston, as in being the president of eight small companies in eastern North Carolina and an officer or director in ten others.
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11107
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John E. Reeves, a native of Mount Airy, is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Reeves Brothers, Inc., which was founded in Mount Airy in the early 1920s by Micah R. and John M. Reeves. The company is one of the nation's larger textile manufacturing corporations. Reeves is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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11137
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A. H. Galloway, chairman and CEO of the newly created RJ Reynolds Industries, Inc., is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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11142
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Henry E. Richter of IBM is featured in this month's We The People Magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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11189
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Claude Ramsey is president and chief executive officer of Anzona Incorporated in Asheville. The corporation formed in 1970 and is growing rapidly. The company has great product diversity--from manmade fibers to adhesives to ethical drugs to leather products to wire and cable and salt. Anzona has forty-four plants in eight countries.
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