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Containerization Encyclopedia
Containerization, as it is known today, started in the 1950s with a North Carolina trucker’s imagination and desire to improve transportation efficiency. According to the latest statistics, approximately 90% of the world’s non-bulk cargo is shipped via containers and approximately 26% of all goods shipped via containerization originate from China.
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Credit Unions Encyclopedia
In 1915, the North Carolina General Assembly passed the Credit Union Act. (The law allowed for the formation and supervision of credit unions within the state.) By 1916, North Carolinians led the South in the establishment of credit unions.
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The Cupola House Association Encyclopedia
One of the earliest preservation efforts in North Carolina, The Cupola House Association has maintained the Cupola House in Edenton, built in 1758, for all to enjoy. It is a prime example of concerned citizens finding private solutions to solve historical preservation problems.
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Don Curtis and the Curtis Media Group Encyclopedia
Although Don Curtis founded the Curtis Media Group in 1968, he started his media career ten years earlier. In 1957, 15 year old Don began working at WKMT in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. He transformed his weekly broadcast in Bessemer City into one of the largest single shareholder companies in the United States.
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Duke Power Company Encyclopedia
In addition to producing electricity that spurred industrial development in North Carolina, the Duke Power Company, now called the Duke Energy Corporation, has played important roles in several chapters of the state's history.
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Duplin Winery Encyclopedia
Although Tar Heels were national leaders in wine making before the Civil War and once again during the early 1900s, few modern-day Americans—and even native Tar Heels—have regarded the state as a leader in grape and wine production. North Carolina is known mainly today for championship college basketball and tourist attractions and its tobacco and pork industries. Over the past two decades, however, wineries have been started across the state. Yet Duplin Winery in Rose Hill has been the major link between the days of state and local Prohibition and the current revival in North Carolina viticulture and serves as a harbinger for the medicinal uses of the muscadine.
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Esse Quam Videri Encyclopedia
The Latin phrase
Esse Quam Videri, “to be rather than to seem,” was chosen as the North Carolina state motto by jurist and historian, Walter Clark.
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Fayetteville, City of Encyclopedia
A bustling, 1800s hub of trade and political activity, home to an important arsenal and center of trade during the Civil War, and home to Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force bases during the twentieth century, Fayetteville has played an important role in North Carolina history and will continue to do so.
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Federal Paper Board Company Encyclopedia
Some historians have criticized the paper and pulp companies of southeastern North Carolina for threatening the local environment. Environmentalists have been especially concerned with the effect of the paper and pulp industry in the area known as the Green Swamp located east of Columbus in Brunswick County. However, some paper and pulp companies have been actively involved in preserving the environment that they have used for profit.
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Albert Earle Finley (1895-1986) Encyclopedia
As the eleventh child of Washington and Sallie Webster Finley, Albert Earle Finley truly understood America was the land of opportunity from a young age.
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Alfred Johnston Fletcher (1887-1979) Encyclopedia
Alfred Johnson Fletcher, the seventh of fourteen children, was born in 1887 in the mountains of North Carolina. After studying law at Wake Forest College, he opened a practice in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. His greatest achievement was the Capitol Broadcasting Company, which he created when he applied for a 250 watt AM station in 1937. When he went on the air in 1939, he was only the second radio station in Raleigh.
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Food Lion Encyclopedia
A regional grocery chain and subsidiary of Belgium-based Delhaize Group, Food Lion began in 1957 as a one-store operation in Salisbury, North Carolina, under the name Food Town and the direction of
Ralph W. Ketner. After the introduction of the
LFPINC concept in 1967, the grocery chain grew from seven stores to approximately 800 in 1991, the year in which Ketner retired. Before then in 1983, the company had changed its name to Food Town. During the early 1990s, the supermarket chain went through legal battles that curbed its exponential growth. Under the leadership of DelHaize Group executives, the company in February 2007 employed approximately 73,000 workers in almost 1,200 stores and served nearly ten million customers in eleven states.
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William C. Friday (1920- ) Encyclopedia
Serving from 1956 to 1986, William Clyde “Bill” Friday was the first and longest serving president of the University of North Carolina. During his tenure, Friday made significant changes to North Carolina higher education including playing major roles in the formation of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the development of the
Research Triangle Park, and the consolidation and expansion of the state’s 16-campus system.
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Henry E. Frye (1932- ) Encyclopedia
Governor James B. Hunt appointed Justice Henry Frye, in 1983, to the North Carolina Supreme Court. He thus became he became the first African American to sit on the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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Goody's Headache Powder Encyclopedia
Like many pharmacists in 1932, Martin “Goody” Goodman compounded his own
headache relief powder called “Goody’s” to sell in his local pharmacy.
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