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1510
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Greensboro-based Cone Mills Corp. and members of Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) reached agreement on company funding of, and employee access to, the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Cone Mills created in 1984.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 14, Apr 1994, p10-13 Periodical Website
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6829
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J. Patrick Danahy is president and CEO of Cone Mills Corp., which is headquartered in Greensboro. He began his career as a management trainee in 1971-72 and became president and chief executive officer in 1990. Danahy is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's “executive profile.”
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North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 49 Issue 4, Apr 1991, p12, 14-15, por
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10370
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Cone Mills Corporation, with seventeen plants in twelve cities and towns in North and South Carolina, is one of the largest manufacturers of textile fabrics. The company employs a workforce of over 14,000 and annually uses around 400,000 five-hundred-pound bales of cotton.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 17 Issue 6, Nov 1959, p46, 49-50, 79, il, por
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11584
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Lewis S. Morris has had a forty-year career in the textile industry. Today he is chairman and chief executive officer of Cone Mills Corporation in Greensboro. He is featured in We the People of North Carolina magazine's Businessman in the News.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 34 Issue 4, Apr 1976, p10, 12, 14, por
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13470
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Cone Mills Corporation is engaged in a program aimed at modernizing and brightening a 1,400-acre mill village, located in Greensboro, North Carolina. Costing upwards of $2,500,000, the project began in 1947 and comprises twenty percent of the city's land.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 20 Issue 7, July 1952, p9,19, il
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14910
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Greensboro was a thriving city with diversified industries. Industries encompassed a wide array of goods including textile mills, lumber mills, hosiery plants, and metal manufacturing facilities. The Cone interests, comprised of three mills, constituted one of the world's largest textile manufactures. Burlington Mills Corporation was a major company in the rayon industry. Greensboro served as a major commercial center for the northern Piedmont region with more retail variety and as a principal convention center for Virginia, North and South Carolina.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 11 Issue 21, Oct 1943, p16-23, il
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22223
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The Cone brothers built four textile mills in Guilford County around the turn of the 20th century--White Oak Cotton Mill, Proximity Cotton Mill, Revolution Cotton Mill, and Proximity Print Works. Cooke interviews Lillie Mae Crum, now 91, about her experiences working in the White Oak plant for 45 years from 1941 to 1986.
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31315
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Cone Mills, a long-time textile pioneer, continues to make important scientific advances as a producer of more than 20 different types of fabrics. Cone also manufactures an increasing variety of corduroys, denims, twills, sateens, poplins, terries, and flannels.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 22 Issue 6, November 1964, p110-112, 173, por
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32901
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Dewey L. Trogdon is chairman and chief executive officer of Cone Mills Corporation in Greensboro. This article discusses Trogdon’s background in business and the textile industry.
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34945
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In the mid-1900’s, mill villages became popular as a means to house and provide resources for families working at the textile mills. One mill village child, Judith Sams, recalls how the village she lived in, White Oak, became a self-sustaining town. White Oak ran on the mill schedule and created convenience stores and churches for everyone to attend.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 85 Issue 4, September 2017, p156-160, il, por Periodical Website