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Article: Mercedes-Benz chooses Alabama. (Daimler-Benz AG)
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- November 1, 1993
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VANCE, ALA.--The South is gaining quite an edge from foreign auto makers. Last year, European luxury car maker BMW announced it was opening its first North American auto assembly plant in Greenville, S.C.
Last month, Mercedes-Benz of Germany followed suit when it named Vance, Ala., a small rural community in Tuscaloosa County, as the site for its North American plant. The assembly plant, scheduled to begin construction in the spring and be ready for production in 1997, will manufacture 60,000 sport utility vehicles a year. The 1.2 million sq ft building will sit on a 966 acre site, and will employ about 1,500 people. The building of the plant, and the feeder plants ...
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Article: TUSCALOOSA COUNTY YIELDS TWO NEW RECORD FISH
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
July 13, 2006 ;
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... ... trout and the skipjack herring. Both fish were caught in Tuscaloosa County. Otha G. Hamm of Alexandria caught a 9-pound, 1 ... ounce skipjack herring from below Oliver Lock and Dam in Tuscaloosa County on March 17, 2006. The previous record fish, caught ...
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