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West Virginia The Land Overlooked and Its Great Industries
West Virginia, just celebrating its fiftieth birthday, emerges as a booming industrial state. Weirton Steel, Homer Laughlin China, Wheeling Steel, Parkersburg plants, Vitrolite, Viscose, and andere firms expand with multi million dollar plans. Huntington and Parkersburg host large metal, insulation, and manufacturing operations fueling national and export markets.
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West Virginia
Joe Mitchell Chapple
National
Panhandle
Weirton Steel Company
Hancock County
Jaf ‘Sheen
10 Weirton
Newell
Homer Laughlin China Company
Wheeling Steel Corporation
Wheeling
Benwood
Beech Bottom
Follansbee
Ollansbee
Consolidated Expanded Metal Company
Braddock
Pennsylvania
Sterling Products Company, Inc
Parkersburg
Vitrolite Company
Vitrolite
National Cash Register Company
Parkersburg Big & Reel Company
America
Baldwin Tool Works
Parkersburg Mattress Company
Courtaulds Company, Ltd
London
Storck Baking Company
Huntington
International Nickel Company, Incorporated
Jeffrey DeWitt
Australia
New Zealand
India
Italy
Spain
France
Mexico
United States