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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Eximbank loans made in 1985 for several meat-processing plants, copper-processing facilities, a turnkey chemical complex, a color-television tube plant, a glass funnel facility, a process computer used in steel manufacturing, and a tractor factory remain unpaid.

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The BBC's Norman Smith said the event was a show of unity and its setting - in a tractor factory in Essex - was designed to counter suggestions the government was out of touch and to provide a contrast with their 2010 "Rose Garden" press conference.

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Iranian authorities stated that the content of these containers were tractor parts bound for their factory in Venezuela's Bolivar state.

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Cat is adding capacity to its tractor plant and building a combine factory.

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Cat is adding capacity to its DeKalb, Ill. tractor plant and is building a combine factory in Omaha.

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Now he employs 28 people and runs a factory that ships, each week, lighting systems as well as two tractor-trailers full of air filters.

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