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This photo provided by Heritage Auctions shows Thomas A. Edison: Keys to His Menlo Park Laboratory on display. Six keys in all from the famous inventor's Menlo Park home and work place will be auctioned Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016 in Dallas, along with five lightbulbs, including two that he created. Heritage Auctions will open the bidding on the two lots.
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In this Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks at the Carrier Corp. factory in Indianapolis. The $7 million deal to save jobs at the Carrier factory in Indianapolis is poised for approval by state officials nearly four months after President Donald Trump celebrated his role in the negotiations with a post-election visit to the plant.
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Steps are also being taken toward about 550 job cuts anticipated at a Carrier Corp. factory in Indianapolis, where Trump's intervention last fall curbed job losses but didn't halt them altogether.
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Bill Davis, of Gas City, Ind., poses in his union's meeting hall in Huntington, Ind., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. Davis works at the United Technologies Electronic Controls factory in Huntington where workers are working mostly seven days a week since late October, making control panels for the furnace, air conditioning and refrigeration industries. Leaders of their union believe the company is doing so ahead of the factory's layoffs expected to start in April and continue into 2018.
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In this Nov. 30, 2016 photo, President, United Steelworkers Local 1999, Chuck Jones speaks with members of the media about the latest Carrier Corp. announcement from a parking lot near the Carrier plant in Indianapolis. The union president slammed by Donald Trump on Twitter challenged the president-elect Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, to back up his claim that a deal to discourage Carrier Corp. from closing an Indiana factory would save 1,100 American jobs.
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Chuck Jones called Trump's reaction "amusing" and said he wasn't backing off "one iota."
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