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AK Steel cuts its second-quarter outlook

May. 5, 2009
Production cuts by General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC will leave AK Steel Holding Corp. with a larger-than-expected second-quarter loss, the steel maker said Tuesday. The car makers' production cuts will lower AK Steel's second-quarter steel shipments to...
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic