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and occupies about 100,000 square feet
of floor space.

The products of the company are
limited to corrugated shipping contain-
ers principally for the tobacco, textile,
and furniture industries. The market
area for these containers includes the
two Carolinas and Virginia, a large
enough area to keep eleven salesmen
busy calling on customers and prospec-
tive customers.

Printing is an important part of mak-
ing containers. Most of the boxes
turned out by Durham Container are
made to order for specific companies,
and huge multi-colored printing press-
es imprint the manufacturers' special
markings or trade mark. Scoring and
folding the printed containers takes
other special machinery.

Paper by railroad

Most of the kraft paper comes into
the plant by rail and is unloaded by
fork lift trucks. These trucks have a
beak-like rod that is inserted through
the core of the big rolls of paper. This
enables them to pick up the rolls with
little chance of damaging the outer

[image: HUGE ROLLS of kraft paper are unloaded from
freight cars by means of a special tongue lift.]

layers of paper. The use of the
"tongue" lift has greatly simplified un-
loading the paper from box cars and
placing it in storage for future use.
Many of the finished containers are
shipped out by rail, making a two-
way rail operation.

Durham Container's vice president
and head of Durham plant is J. F.
Burnham. It is thanks to his ability
and aggressiveness that the company
has grown to its present size in a dozen
years of operation. He has put to-
gether a compact, efficient organiza-
tion which is competing successfully
with other long-established box mak-
ers.

Durham can well be proud of the
reputation for excellence which its
only box plant has established through-
out the area it serves.

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The Class I railroads have more than
$24,000 invested in plant and equip-
ment for every person they employ.

[image: cartoon of man on train reading newspaper]
THE SAFEST DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO POINTS

RAILRAODS SET ALL-TIME
SAFETY RECORD

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