NEWTON, Iowa (AP) -- The last washers and dryers were rolling off Maytag assembly lines here Thursday and the 550 workers who built them were preparing to leave the 2 million-square-foot factory for ...

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WASHINGTON -- Washing machine prices are going to rise. Yet more Americans will be put to work as the country makes more of its own washing machines. And Whirlpool, with a major factory in the ...

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The factory's closing occurs 100 years after the development of Fred Maytag's first washing machine in Newton. It was in 1907 that he made and marketed his first wooden-tub washing machine to generate ...