Posted in Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, UNC History on December 3, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Here’s a question for you. What song would best serve as the state’s theme song? That question came to mind this morning as I sampled the works produced by the Beat Making Lab at UNC-Chapel Hill (You can read about one of the Beat Making Lab’s projects in The News and Observer from December 2). [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged charlotte nc, christopher j bright, Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era, douglas aircraft, lillian levy, nike-hercules missile on December 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“[In 1958], to communicate its contribution to the nation’s security, Douglas [Aircraft Corp.] organized a tour of its 1.5 million-square-foot plant in Charlotte, North Carolina, to show reporters and civic leaders ‘how the Nike-Hercules [missile] is assembled from start to finish.’ “The sole woman reporter [Lillian Levy of the Washington Evening Star] observed that ‘the [...]
