BURBANK, CA-A 100-year-old woman was granted her birthday wish Tuesday when she returned to Lockheed Martin’s Southern California assembly plant where she once worked producing airplanes during World War II and beyond. MORE
LINCOLN, NE-What do the 1975 Kawasaki KZ400, the 2001 KZ1000 police bike, the Kawasaki Prairie 250 three-wheeler and the Jet Ski 900A STX all have in common? They were all assembled at the Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing plant here. MORE
YORK, PA-Syringe manufacturer Unilife Corp. will construct a new global headquarters and manufacturing facility here. The 165,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility will include eight Class 100,000 clean rooms and three Class 7 clean rooms. MORE
PITMAN, NJ-Sony Music Holdings Inc. has agreed to pay a former employee of its compact disc manufacturing plant here $20,000 to resolve allegations he was regularly harassed in the workplace because of his sexual orientation. MORE
BOSTON-The Federal Reserve is prepared to take new action to boost the weak economy, Chairman Ben Bernanke said, because inflation is still too low and the unemployment rate remains stubbornly high. MORE
DETROIT-Automakers are going to great lengths to get more miles per gallon from their vehicles and everything is being looked at-even the engine oil. GM, Ford and Chrysler are switching to a new oil, known by its industry grading as GF-5 or SN, to help engines run more efficiently and better protect them from wear. MORE
SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. will invest between $6 billion and $8 billion in its manufacturing operations in the United States, including the construction of a new chip manufacturing facility in Oregon. The plan is expected to create up to 8,000 construction jobs, and up to 1,000 permanent high-tech jobs. MORE
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