Once-mighty Motor City files for bankruptcy
Friday, July 19, 2013
DETROIT -- Once the very symbol of American industrial might, Detroit became the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy Thursday, its finances ravaged and its neighborhoods hollowed out by a long, slow decline in population and auto manufacturing.
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