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States lure factories fueling postwar growth abroad
The piece charts a regional shift in industry from Northeast and Midwest to the South and Southwest since World War II. It notes Perry Florida's Buckeye Cellulose plant transforming a 2,600-person town, while Pennsylvania's Chester assembly plant faced closure affecting 1,500 jobs. It highlights public incentives, tax breaks, and local bond campaigns used to attract plants, with North Carolina leveraging local councils to attract industry and 1960 bonds raising 6.3 million for 3,975 jobs.
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Perry
Fla
Kay Porter
South Carolina
Tennessee
Arkansas
Louisiana
Main Street
Ford Motor Co
Chester
North Carolina
Luther H. Hodges
U. S. Secretary of Commerce
Dartmouth College
Midwest
Far West