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Airbus Bids for Pentagon Contract

European plane maker Airbus sweetens a bid to win a lucrative Pentagon contract over arch rival Boeing. Airbus says if it wins an Air Force contract for refueling tankers, it will assemble those tankers — plus the freight version of one of its best selling aircraft — in the U.S. The contract is said to be worth about $40 billion.

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