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Industrial South Sees New Wave Of Plants Jobs And Wealth
The South shifts from old farming to industrial growth as factories and mills bring 100 jobs on average, $710000 in spending power and more. Urban rural tension grows with rising middle class, education expands, and political patterns shift as industry spreads across Georgia Tennessee Mississippi Virginia Florida and beyond.
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Caldwell Marks
Alabama Chamber of Commerce
South
Joe W. Hart
Memphis State University
Perry H. Howard
Louisiana
Mississippi
Oxford
Georgia
Atlanta
E. C. Barksdale
Arlington State
Fort Worth
Lee S. Greene
University of Tennessee
State Senate
Reed Sarratt
Southern Education Reporting Service
W. Cameron Mitchell
Virginia
Alvin Wunderlich Jr
Memphis Chamber of Commerce
Donald Russell
South Carolina
Florida
Texas
John Schuelke
Houston