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12853
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We the People of North Carolina magazine began publication in May 1943. In this magazine memoir, Armstrong looks back over forty-five years of the magazine's history.
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12854
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In 1946, after service in World War II, Bill McLaurin was twenty-one, newly-married, carrying a full class load at the University of North Carolina, and almost broke. He went to work as a parking lot attendant at eighty cents an hour. Today, the McLaurin Parking Company is one of the most respected names in the parking industry. With sixty lots in Raleigh, the company has branched out to hospital, college, sporting, and special event parking operations.
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12855
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Griffin provides an economic profile of Gaston County.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 46 Issue 6, June 1988,
p14, 16, 18, 20, 22-23, 51, il
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12856
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The Public Service Company of North Carolina, Inc., a natural gas utility headquartered in Gastonia in Gaston County, is marking its fiftieth year of operation. Charles Branson Zeigler founded the company in the 1930s and went on to create a statewide natural gas distribution network.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 46 Issue 6, June 1988,
p24, 26, 28, 50-51, il
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12857
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First Union's beginning was modest. In 1908, H. M. Victor put forth a proposal to organize The Union National Bank of Charlotte. After raising a $100,000 through stock sales, he set up his office at a desk in the main lobby of the Buford Hotel, and the bank began. In 1988, First Union marked its eightieth anniversary.
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12858
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Alfred Williams was born in Franklin County in 1805 and moved to Raleigh when he was sixteen. Although Alfred Williams and Company today is synonymous with quality office furniture and supplies, it all began 150 years ago with the founding of a drugstore firm named Williams and Haywood.
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12924
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Marvin Rea started his bridge and road construction company in Charlotte in 1937, providing Portland cement paving services. Today, thousands of North Carolina roads bear the imprint of his company. The company is also in the building construction field.
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12925
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Hughes provides capsule reports on real estate activity in North Carolina's major markets, including Charlotte, the Triad, Wilmington, and Asheville.
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12926
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Gennett reports on the construction industry in the Carolinas where over 3,500 firms hire six percent of the workforce.
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12927
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James W. Cogdell is president and CEO of The Cogdell Group of Charlotte. The company specializes in building doctor-owned medical office buildings, 70 percent of them hospital-related.
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12936
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James A. Heavner is president of The Village Companies, a company with twelve wholly-owned subsidiaries, including three broadcasting operations, a weekly shopping guide, and The Tar Heel Sports Network, which has broadcast the University of North Carolina football and basketball games for the last fifteen years. We the People of North Carolina magazine features him in its Businessman in the News section.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 46 Issue 10, Oct 1988,
p8, 10, 12, 14-15, 53-54, por
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12937
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Oxford native Michael Cutts out chanted forty-eight other professional tobacco auctioneers to win the 1988 World Tobacco Auctioneering Championship held in Danville, North Carolina.
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12938
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Boyd Lee George is president of Merchants Distributors, Incorporated, a complex of seventeen acres of warehouses located in Hickory. His father and uncle founded the company in 1931. They made $250,000 the first year. Sales for this year are projected at $581 million. The company stocks over 23,000 items that it supplies to supermarkets and convenience stores throughout the Southeast. We the People of North Carolina magazine features him in its Businessman In the News section.
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12939
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Lail discusses the economic conditions in the town of Hickory and Catawba County, two areas whose economy was formerly driven by the furniture and textile industries.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 46 Issue 12, Dec 1988,
p12-16, 18, 20, 22, il
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12940
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Carpenter Decorating, Inc. in Conover, now in its sixtieth year, is one of only four major manufacturers of seasonal outdoor decorations in the country.
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