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- <text id=89TT1903>
- <title>
- July 24, 1989: Business Notes:Airports
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 24, 1989 Fateful Voyage:The Exxon Valdez
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 41
- Business Notes
- AIRPORTS
- Freight Goes First Class
- </hdr><body>
- <p> A stretch of prairie north of Fort Worth seems an unlikely
- home for the "industrial hub of tomorrow." Yet this is where
- Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot is constructing a 9,600-ft.
- runway that will carry mostly industrial products rather than
- human passengers. Perot and his son H. Ross Jr., 30, who heads
- the project, envision the Alliance Airport as the center of a
- 4,200-acre industrial park in which companies will manufacture
- products and distribute them by air freight.
- </p>
- <p> Fort Worth has invested more than $75 million in the
- city-owned airport, and the Federal Aviation Administration has
- donated $31 million toward construction because it will help
- reduce congestion at other fields. The Perots, who donated 414
- acres for the airport, plus $14 million, own nearly 17,000 acres
- nearby.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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