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State Works To Keep Airline Headquarters In Milwaukee

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News thatFlorida-based Air Tran Airways is trying tomerge with Milwaukee -based Midwest Airlines has
politicians talking. Midwest’s Board of Directors recently rejected a merger offer, but Air Tran says it plans to keep after Midwest.Governor Jim Doyle says he doesn’t want Wisconsin to lose a corporate headquarters.Mary Jo Wagner and Chuck Quirmbach prepared this report…

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