First it selected Texas--the Big Three's biggest pickup-truck market--as the site for a new truck factory.

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After growing up in the 1960s in Charles City, Iowa, a rural county seat known for its tornadoes and tractor factory (now a vacant site), brothers Charley and Pete Thomson were happy to move on.

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Rescue work at the site of the Rana Plaza garment factory continued for a sixth day on Monday, but army spokesman Shahinul Islam said "there is little hope of finding anyone alive".

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Rochdale Council has refused planning permission for 600 homes on the site of a former asbestos factory.

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In the Sept. 12 issue of Forbes, I write about Blu Homes, a Massachusetts startup that makes green prefab houses that fold up in the factory for shipping and are unfolded on site and bolted to a foundation in a day (see video at end of this post).

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Two potential sites have been identified in Wrexham for a prison, at Kingmoor Park and the former Firestone factory site, both on Wrexham Industrial Estate.

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Early on, to get around rules restricting Olympic participation to amateurs, Hoffman would hire the lifters at his factory for as little as ten dollars a week and let them train on-site.

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Approval was also given for a new four-storey office building on the Farmeloan Road site, which used to be home to the Monogram factory.

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