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1.T.W. Garner Food Company by Owen, Jackie We the People of North Carolina Vol. 19 Issue 6, Nov 1961
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T.W. Garner Food Company was founded by Thad W. Garner in Winston-Salem in 1929. Sauces, jams, jellies, and preserves make up its line of twenty-nine products. Texas Pete hot sauce is probably the best-known one.
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We the People of North Carolina
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The Chatham Manufacturing Company was founded in Elkin in Surry County in 1877. Since then the company has earned a reputation for blankets, upholstery material, apparel cloth, and yarns used in other textile plants. Chatham employs around 3,500; many have fathers and grandfathers who worked for the company.
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The General Electric Company operates four plants at Asheboro, Goldsboro, Hendersonville, and Hickory, with a combined factory space of 853,000 square-feet. Products range from lamp bulb components to distribution transformers. Information on products from each plant is included.
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4.Swift & Company by Norris, Jeannie Faris We the People of North Carolina Vol. 19 Issue 6, Nov 1961
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Swift & Company opened its first meat packing company in Wilson in 1959. Since then the workforce has increased from an initial 250 to about 350. The plant serves North Carolina and parts of South Carolina and Virginia. Over 1,200 head of mixed livestock are processed daily.
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The Pomona Terra-Cotta Company of Greensboro is among the nation's largest producers of vitrified clay sewer pipe and building products. Founded in 1886, the parent company plant and headquarters still occupy the same site upon which the firm was established.
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6.Blue Bell, Inc. by Norris, Jeannie Faris We the People of North Carolina Vol. 19 Issue 6, Nov 1961
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Blue Bell Inc, with headquarters and manufacturing plants in Greensboro, and others plants in Stokesdale and Lenoir, as well as plants in seven other states, ranks as one of the leading garment producers in the country. Primarily a maker of work clothes until after World War II, the company has diversified to make clothing for the entire family.
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Founded in 1904 in Siler City, the Boling Chair Company makes chairs for offices, schools, homes, and other institutions. The chairs are sold in all fifty states and many foreign countries.
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James Spencer Love came to North Carolina seeking a job in 1919. Four years later he owned the Gastonia Mill and began a textile empire that at his death on January 20, 1962, included 147 plants in eighteen states and seven foreign countries. Around half of the plants and employees are located in the state.
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Ideal Cement Company has formally dedicated its new North Carolina plant at Castle Hayne. The storage, packing and bulk shipping facilities are complete. The cement plant is under construction and scheduled for completion in June 1963.
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In January 1906 the Globe Parlor Furniture Company began operations in High Point with fifteen workers. From the beginning Globe focused on upholstered furniture. Today, the company operates in a 100,000 square-foot facility and has grown from a regional manufacturer to a national one.
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The P.H. Hanes Knitting Company began in 1903 with 150 employees in a plant just north of Winston-Salem. Today the company has grown to 4,500 employees. The article traces the history of the company. The name Hanes is synonymous with hosiery, socks, and undergarments.
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Carolina Steel, a division of Florida Steel Corporation, has opened its new $3.3 million plant near Charlotte. The plant uses scrap as its “ore,†and sixty car-loads per month bring it to the mill. The article presents information on changing scrap into steel at the plant.
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National Spinning Company was founded in 1920. The company opened its first North Carolina plant in Washington in 1953 and a second one at Whiteville in 1959. The company's wisdom was questioned because the plant locations were in areas of unskilled labor. Today these successful operations have a workforce of over 700 and annual payroll of over $2 million.
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Fifty years ago Gurney Harriss Kearns left a successful career as a furniture industry executive to venture into the field of hosiery manufacture. Today the company he founded in High Point, Crown Mills, Inc., is one of the country's leading hosiery producers. The article traces the history and growth of the company.
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Holly Farms Poultry Industries, Inc., located in Wilkesboro, is the largest integrated broiler production organization in the state. The company began in 1947 and is one of the five largest in the nation. The article presents information on the company's development and how the chickens are processed.
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