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13678
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Although not known as a railroad center, North Carolina has a great profusion of short-line railroads. Don McGrady, owner of the Thermal Belt Railway which runs from Gilkey to Bostic, is the newest member of the group. He worked out a deal with the state, Rutherford County, local shippers and CSX Transportation to operate the Forest City-Gilkey line, which was abandoned by Norfolk Southern in 1989, and the three-and-a-half-mile Forest City-Bostic line, which CSX is selling.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 4, Apr 1990,
p16-20, 23, por
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13679
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Tullos discusses some of the pioneer industrialists who transformed North Carolina during the 19th-century. Among them were Daniel Augustus Tompkins (1851-1914) and James Buchanan Duke (1856-1925).
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 4, Apr 1990,
p24-25, 27-28, 30, 32, 35, il
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13680
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Perkins discusses the business career of Frank H. Kenan, philanthropist, businessman, and civic leader of Chapel Hill.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 4, Apr 1990,
p44-49, por
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13681
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In 1967 Ralph Ketner's supermarket chain of sixteen stores had dropped to seven and his profits totaled only $36,000. He was not certain he would be in business the following year. Yet he did not go under. Now, in 1990, at age 70, he is retiring as chairman of the board of the country's fastest-growing supermarket chain - Food Lion, which had sales of $4.7 billion in 1989. Donsky discusses the remarkable turnaround.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 4, Apr 1990,
p50-55, por
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13711
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In this series of articles called Expense Account Dining, Pace describes Castle McCulloch, a restaurant located in Jamestown in Guilford County.
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16331
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Bailey recounts the origin and growth of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company of Durham.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 4, Apr 1990,
p36-38, 40, 42-43, il
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