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Toyota Digs In for Long Haul at New San Antonio Truck-Manufacturing Plant.

By John W. Gonzalez, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 18--SAN ANTONIO--Five live oak trees were planted on a suburban pasture Friday to symbolize Toyota taking root in Texas with the construction of an $800 million truck manufacturing plant.

The event drew guests from Japan and rekindled the city's hopes that the facility will offset a succession of local plant closures by providing 2,000 high-paying assembly jobs and thousands more in related industries.

Shoichiro Toyoda of Japan, honorary chairman of Toyota Motor Co

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