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In the context of its age, Reynolds was a remarkable institution. At a time when the South was desperately poor and mired in an agrarian economy, here was a company taking an indigenous agricultural product and making it a major industrial business. At a time when southern businesses were generally controlled by absentee Yankee owners, here was a company under local control raining cash on its community.
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