Cover Story
Marco Polo Comes Home
If Spirit was willing, the flesh couldn’t be weak: How the Global TransPark lured an aerospace manufacturer.
By Edward Martin
Lightning flickers in the Saturday evening sky as Jim Fain’s flight lifts off late from Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Missing his connection in New York, North Carolina’s top industry hunter dozes through the night slumped in a chair at John F. Kennedy International Airport. By the time his Air France flight thunders off the runway Sunday morning, it’s midday in Paris, and the City of Light is aglow when he walks through the gate at Charles de Gaulle International Airport seven hours later.
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Features
The Fix Is In
Our Small Business of the Year stays fit repairing industrial equipment.
By Arthur O. Murray
Eight o’clock Friday night, a good time to crack open a cold one and kick back — Miller time, ads would have you believe. But when you’re making beer 24/7, it’s no time to relax. Particularly on the night in 2003 when a pneumatic supply line ruptured at the Miller brewery in Eden and started spewing amber waves of grain.
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