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...Pont's Delaware plant makes Dacron on a pilot plant scale, can supply Witty with fiber for only 1,600 suits this year. Big-scale deliveries of Dacron must wait until 1953, when Du Pont finishes its new plant at Kinston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXTILES: Enter Dacron | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

Your otherwise very excellent and illuminating April 16 article on Mr. Crawford Greenewalt and the Du Pont enterprises fell to a new low on the local market because of the spelling of the name of our town. It is Kinston, not Kingston. This has been true since Revolutionary War days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

THOS. F. HEWITT Kinston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...Omnipotent Government. In Kinston, N.C., an elderly woman hopefully applied to relief authorities for "old age resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 16, 1945 | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

Mitchell's Christian Singers all grew up in Kinston, where two drive trucks, one is a carpenter and one a tobacco-factory hand. Being good friends, they gradually drifted into the habit of singing together in the evenings after work. Being musically illiterate, they invented their own songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spirituals to Swing | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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