SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



agriculture, forest products, chemicals, plastics, metals, 

 textiles, and machine products, gas and oil. In the light 

 of the latest scientific discoveries and commercial de- 

 velopments, they are studying these resources of the 

 Memphis area. Their findings, after combined scrutiny, 

 are not broadcast, but are laid on the desks of appro- 

 priate company presidents right in Memphis, a practical 

 hint of new or allied products that might be profitable 

 lines for expansion. 



They do not prod and they do not preach in fact, 

 more and more they are called in to check new ideas 

 that the imagination and initiative of Memphis manu- 

 facturers have hatched. Neither do they go out into 

 the highways and byways of industry hawking their 

 wares. When somebody comes along with the thought 

 of locating a new enterprise, they have most of the 

 answers ready and know where they can get the others. 



The aim of such a program might appear to shoot at 

 the stars. The sights are fixed, however, on a target right 

 in the range of practical reality. The Memphis Indus- 

 trial Research Committee hold before themselves the 

 definite objective of providing a satisfactory level of 

 local postwar employment by means of sound industrial 

 expansion. This is the nub of the entire Southern re- 

 conversion problem, the somber foreground of its bril- 

 liant horizons. 



During the war no section of the country went 

 through such a turmoil of labor dislocation. From the 



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