Union Carbide plant in Greenville, North Carolina, 1964.

ID: 261 ~ Source: East Carolina University Seeds of Change: Daily Reflector Image Collection ~ Creator: Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.) ~ Date: 1964
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In the 1980s, plants like this were built around the world, including Saudi Arabia, once Union Carbide began to sell licenses to foreign companies.

ID: A large building with a sign in front of it that reads “Eveready Batteries,” “Greenville Plant,” and “Union Carbide.”

This file appears in: Working in Saudi Arabia

By Hillard Pouncy
"And in the Middle East, they came to our place, came to our laboratory, and we talked to them and tell them what we were doing…and someone in the Middle East bought a license from Union Carbide. And they found out that they really didn’t know…