ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, May 14, 1993                   TAG: 9305140226
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS - BRIEFLY

Branch Highways Inc. of Roanoke has been awarded a $28.8-million contract by the Virginia Department of Transportation for a four-mile segment of the proposed Fairfax County Parkway. The two-year project, to employ about 100 people, is designed to relieve traffic congestion in the Fairfax and Manassas areas.

\ After an absence of nearly 20 years, Bridgestone/Firestone Corp. is returning to auto racing's main event and will supply racing tires to the Indianapolis 500 by 1995, sources say. The move, expected to be announced today, would put the company in head-to-head competition with Goodyear to put tires on the winning car of America's most-watched auto race. For the past two decades, Goodyear has been the Indy 500's exclusive supplier of racing tires.

Keywords:
AUTO RACING 


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