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Times Staff and Wire Reports
A Las Vegas man paralyzed when his pickup truck overturned because of a faulty tire has been awarded $7.6 million in a lawsuit against tire maker Uniroyal Inc., a unit of France’s Michelin Group, in San Diego County Superior Court. . . . St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas Corp. said it will spend $37 million on new automated machine tools to produce the C-17 cargo plane at its factory in Long Beach.
