Sky City Discount Center to Open Fifth Outlet in Spartanburg
Sky City Discount Center will open its fifth outlet in Spartanburg next March with over $1 million invested for a 60,000 square foot store employing 125. The firm, also operating centers in Asheville Hickory and Augusta Ga and 15 conventional stores under Bowers T Stores Inc, plans a major regional expansion. The report also notes Drexel Enterprises bonuses totaling over $2 million this year and promotions at Life Insurance Life and other firms.
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Sky City Discount Center
Spar- Bee S
J. H. Modlin
Sky City
High Point
Modlin
Spartanburg
Asheville
Hickory
Augusta
North Carolina
Tennessee
Kentucky
Bower’s T Stores Inc
Founders Life
F. Gordon Lindley
High Paint
Founders ‘Life of Carolina
Lindley
Fii‘Back Co., Inc
Fii-Back
S Lindley
High Point College
Lu@Hle
McCain Pl
Drexel
Drexel Enterprises
Southern Desk
Heritage-Morganion
Drexel Furniture Co
the Corp
Drexel Enterises
Lewis O. Hunt
The
Life Insurance Co
Virginia
T Po
Ne C. Anderson
Jimt
High Geiat Church of God
Sam Moore
Quotes Over The Counter Stocks National List
Quotations compiled by the National Association of Security Dealers are representative inter-dealer prices at the close of business Thursday. Inter-dealer markets change during the day. Prices exclude retailer markups or commissions.
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National Association of Security Dealers
American Fidelity
American Sterilizer
Aay
Blua Bell, Inc
Brush Beryllium Star
Caroling Freight Carriers
Central
Vermont
Colonia
Fidelity Bankers Lite
First Union Nat'l Bank
Florida Steel Wiha
Franklin Realty
Georgia International
Gulf Lite
Joslyn Mfg
Exiser Steel
Kentucky Central
Lance, Inc
Liberty Life Ins
Life & Casualty Ins
Eva Life of Virginia
McLean Industries
National Food
National Life & Aceld
New Britain
N.C. National Bank
N.C
Occidental Life
American Land
Bassett Furniture
Bowater Paper
Carolina Mills, Inc
Carolina Natural Gas Gnsis
Carolina P & L
Carolina Capital Corp
Coastal Plain Life Ins
Luck’s Inc Bu
New Jersey
Northwestern Bank
Peoples Nat. Gas
Phillips
P&n Ralway
Frontier Finance
Spindaie Mills
Sterling Inc. Fund
Stonecutter Mills
TANG
Textiles, Inc
Thermo Plastics A
Peoples Nat. Gay
Fascue Ae
P&wn Railway
Roberts Co
Son
Spindale Mills
Ala Sterling
Stonecutter Aptlis
Thermo Plastics
Western Carolina Tel
Henredon
Homa Tel & Tel
Ivey, J. B. & Company
Li'l General Stores
Ava Sa
Japan's motorcycle boom fuels postwar export surge
The article profiles Soichiro Honda and Japan’s rise as a motorcycle powerhouse. Honda leads with about 65 percent of global output and roughly 900000 bikes exported mostly to the United States, while Japan’s postwar industry grew from about 60 makers to a dominant global supplier.
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Honda
Japan
United States
Honda Motors
Motorcycle Boom Transforms Postwar Japan
The rise of engine bicycles in Japan after World War II reshaped mobility. Honda led with four factories and 8,000 workers, producing 135,394 motorcycles in August, followed by Suzuki with 30,000 monthly units. Yamaha, all in Hamamatsu near Kamyo, helped redefine the market. Honda’s 1954 four cycle engine and stylish, efficient bikes broadened appeal abroad, while founder Soichiro Honda pushed a market creating philosophy.
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Rene-Georges Inagaki
Tokyo
Japan
America
France
Italy
Germany
Britain
Kimyo
Soichiri Honda
Honda
Suzuki Company
Suzuki
Yamaha
Hamamattsu
Fof Kamyo
Wilson & Co Inc reports 1965 earnings and sales
Wilson & Co Inc expects 1965 earnings of about 9.1 million on sales of 815 million, about 1.1 cents per sales dollar. This follows prior year earnings of 12.57 million on 766.39 million sales. Elevation in sales reflects higher meat prices. tonnage roughly flat. After preferred stock dividends, 1965 earnings equal 3.60 per common share vs 5.14 in 194 fiscal year. All divisions profitable. Athletic Goods and Chemical Industries better than last year. lower pork division earnings pull overall results.
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Wilson & Co. Inc
Athletic Goods
Chemical Industries
Business expects 1966 boom against inflation fears
By AP writer Jack LeFler New York—With 1965 fading, business leaders forecast 1966 would be about as good as 1965, a strong year with little inflation worry. Frederic G. Donner of General Motors predicted another auto industry boom after 1965 sales of 9.3 million cars and 5 million trucks, up over 1964 by more than 13 percent. The Associated Press stock averages rose, with the Dow Jones industrial average up to 957.85.
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New York
Rer
Associated Press
Dow Jones
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Moore
Bedford
Pilot Life
Pilot Life Insurance Co
F. Stafford
Stafford
Pilot
Indian Head Mills, Inc
Howard Zink Corp
Fremont
Ohio
Zink
Jack D. Zink
Indian Head Mills
Canada
Associated Press National List
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Eaton Mfg
Stanley Warner
PAN AM Airways
Hornblower & Weeks Hemphill, Noyes
New York Stock Exchange
W. Gaston
Greensboro
Charles E. Diffendal Jr
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Jack Lefler
AP Business News
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High Point Bank
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Hartford
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Edgar “T. “‘Docbrow
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Professional Life Insurance Service
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Lyon
New England Life
Mutual Life Insurance
América
Hayden Place
Pete Aba
Felevision Electronics Fund
Ineome
J. Sturgis May & CO
N. Car. Bank
Peugeot
Horace G. Ilderton
S. Main Street
Hirsh
Occidental
the Royal Protector
Occcidental Live & Ee
WOME
Raleigh
High Point Bank and Trust Co
S. Malin Sr
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