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The state of Alabama has invested in aerospace, education, health care, banking, and various heavy industries, including automobile manufacturing, mineral extraction, steel production and fabrication. By 2006, crop and animal production in Alabama was valued at $1.5 billion. In contrast to the primarily agricultural economy of the previous century, this was only about one percent of the state's gross domestic product. The number of private farms has declined at a steady rate since the 1960s, as land has been sold to developers, timber companies, and large farming conglomerates.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Alabama

1955 was a year of important firsts in America. The opening of McDonalds would help revolutionize the restaurant industry. The opening of Disneyland would transform the definition of theme park. And in Alabama, the sign-on of Alabama Public Television’s transmitters in Birmingham and on Mt. Cheaha would make it the first educational television network in the nation, demonstrating enormous new possibilities for students across the country.

In the following years, Alabama would be a prototype for broadcasters and educators in the U.S. and around the world. APT’s founding director, Raymond Hurlbert, was elected chairman of the board of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters for 1962-63, and he was president of the National Association of Educational Television in 1968. His participation in legislative hearings on behalf of the Public Broadcasting Act was recognized as key testimony in passage of the legislation, and he was honored by President Lyndon Johnson for his efforts on behalf of what would become national public broadcasting.

https://aptv.org/apt-news/celebrating-americas-first-2/