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* Boeing also said it won an order for at least 94 jetliners valued at $4.5 billion from Southwest Airlines Co., the low-fare carrier’s largest ever and the U.S. plane maker’s biggest for its 737 line of planes. Dallas-based Southwest also is taking options and other purchase rights allowing it to buy 196 more through 2012. Boeing said it will boost production of the 737s to 28 from 24 a month starting in the third quarter of 2001. On the NYSE, Boeing shares rose 40 cents to close at $40.94, while Southwest fell 27 cents to close at $19.25.

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