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The 767 is nearing the end of its production cy- beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor’s
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500 index has climbed almost 3 percent. The stock
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The goal is to make Tulsa the next Air National Guard base desig- The Pentagon plans to buy about 2,500 of the planes at a cost of
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To date, the only Air National Guard base scheduled for F-35s is
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