It's quite a spectacle: eager Governors, U.S. Senators and state economic directors in their best blue suits traipsing out to the headquarters of United Air Lines in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Ever since word got around that United plans to build a new $1 billion aircraft-maintenance center somewhere in the U.S., some 90 cities, states and other public entities have been strutting their stuff in hopes of winning the facility. Dozens of schoolchildren from Oklahoma City have written to chief executive Stephen Wolf, beseeching him to provide jobs for their parents. Suitors have sent flowers to UAL executives and bombarded them...
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