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>> When the bell plant had open,
the main industry was agriculture.
In fact, the bell plant was
built on what was a cotton field.
And that was the skill set.
In small Southern towns,
you had a banker, a newspaper-man,
the cotton gin owner,
and everybody else just plowed
cotton or worked in agriculture.
When we opened the plant, we had to train people.
They weren't available elsewhere,
so we trained these so-called cotton pickers
into the fine points of building airplanes.
That technology then worked
its way into the industry in general,
and the whole industrial atmosphere
of the area has become increasingly
technological because of the presence
of the aircraft industry here in Marietta. [MUSIC]