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A look at developments in the auto industry

May. 29, 2009
A look at developments in the auto industry Friday: ___ _General Motors Corp. said it plans to reopen a shuttered U.S. factory to build subcompact cars that will be the smallest vehicles the automaker has ever produced in the U.S. The move comes as GM...
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commemorated in Washington
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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