Campbell’s Soup selects 11 year old winner in Warhol homage
Campbell’s Soup picks 11 year old from San Juan Bautista California as the successor to the late artist Andy Warhol. Matthew Balestrieri wins a $10,000 grand prize from more than 10,000 submissions. Four finalists share $5,000 each before the final prize is chosen. Warhol popularized the red and white label 33 years ago with varied interpretations of the iconic can. The outcome may or may not match Warhol era publicity.
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Campbell’s Soup Co
San Juan Bautista
Calif
Andy Warhol
Matthew Balestrieri
Balestrieri
Warhol
Sandoz to spin off chemical unit as Clariant
Swiss drug maker Sandoz AG announces the spin off of its chemical unit into Clariant and plans to take the new company public. The move aims to focus Sandoz on pharmaceuticals and nutrition products, with Mount Holly plant officials routing questions to Charlotte corporate offices. Meg Morgan declined comment.
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Sandoz AG
Clariant
Sandoz
Mount Holly
Charlotte
Meg Morgan
Carolina Freight Wins Northeast Region LTL Contract
Carolina Freight Carriers Corp. secures a primary less than truckload contract for Hulf America in the Northeast Region. Hulf America manufactures paints pigments and chemicals. Officials expect over 4 million dollars in revenue. Carolina Freight, part of World War Corp., operates 9,100 plus employees, a fleet of 17,000 trucks and 233 service centers.
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Carolina Freight Carriers Corp
Carolina
Hulf America
Carolina Freight
World War Corp
First Union opens gateway to Asia
First Union Corp opens a West Coast to Asia gateway through a new branch at Lippobank headquarters in California. A Bangkok letter of credit marked the first transaction, part of a broader First Union International Banking Corp network with Lippobank of Indonesia to link the United States, Latin America and Asia via satellite.
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Bangkok
First Union International Banking Corp
Lippobank
California
First Union
Indonesia
United States
Latin America
Asia
North Carolina
Ballenger seeks OSHA reforms shifting from police to partner
In Washington Tenth District Congressman Cass Ballenger proposes a bill to revamp OSHA by steering resources toward compliance support, folding Mine Safety Health Administration into OSHA, and requiring risk based cost benefit analysis. Critics warn the plan could weaken worker protections and increase risk. Ballenger, who leads a workforce protection subcommittee, argues a healthier safety culture boosts productivity while opponents call it carrot not stick.
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Washington
Cass Ballenger
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Ballenger
OSHA
Patrick Murphy
Mine Safety Health Administration
North Carolina
Inside-out Ties On Church Step Turn Side Business
Sean and Melissa Chapman turned a church step encounter into a shared part time business making unique, logoed ties from leftover fabric. They assemble ties nightly with a two person line, sewing by hand the distinctive i logo, offering fabric swatches and varied designs from patriotic to school motifs.
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Melissa
Sean Chapman
Bessemer City
Sean
Melissa Chapman
Chapman
University of North Carolina At Charlotte
Rhyne and
Tryon
Mrs. Chapman
Foreign investment in U S jumps 80 percent in 1994
U S Commerce Department reports foreign investments totaling 47.2 billion dollars for last year, up from 26.2 billion in 1993, driven by Western Europe profits and a weaker dollar. Britain led with 19 billion, followed by Switzerland Canada and Germany at 3.6 billion each, while Japan fell to 2 billion amid a slow recovery.
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Washington
United States
U.S
Japan
Commerce Department
Department’s
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Europe
United Kingdom
Britain
Switzerland
Canada
Germany
Grandson recalls A C Pheil first airline traveler tale
Peter Pheil of Chesterfield recounts his grandfather A C Pheil as the world’s first paying airline passenger. The 21 mile St Petersburg to Tampa flight on Jan 1 1914 in a Benoist airboat marked the dawn of commercial air travel, a milestone echoed as US airlines near 10 billion passengers.
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Pheil
A.C. Pheil
St. Petersburg
Tampa
Fla
Wheis
Charlotte-Douglas International
Chesterfield
S.C
Usair
Washington
Newt Gingrich
Disney
Tampa Bay
Thomas Benoist
St. Louis
Percival E. Fansler
Florida
Peter Pheil
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First Union Corp
West Coast
Leader Targets Safety Agency
Udass Dallenger
Wallis Osha
Nancy Moore Gazette
Duo
Sally Kuhl
the Gazette
Case ‘i
Grandpa
Tony Jannus
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