In Friday trading, Longview Oil Corp. shares are currently down about 1% on the day.

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In Longview, the heart of east Texas pickup culture, car dealers say 70% of their sales are pickups.

ECONOMIST: Pickup country

There is a coaling port facility going in at Longview WA, not far from where I am right now.

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"I felt destined that I should go on this trip, " he had said in a previous interview with The Longview Daily News.

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As Chris Watling of Longview Economics points out, gold's last great bull run was in the 1970s, when real yields were negative.

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If you look at the period between 2000 and 2007, as we did at the Praxis Strategy Group, much of the fastest growth in manufacturing was taking place in areas tied to energy production like Midland and Longview, Texas, and Morgantown, W.Va.

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