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'To my way of thinking, talk about Tennessee outside the state wasn't it eight or 10 years ago. I think we've done a the ^biggest bank failure or the youngest teenage wife marrying the oldest husband possible," Alexan- I der, 45, said during an interview in his capitol ^ Office in Nashville. "But all of that is quite * different from General Motors picking Tennessee the best place to put its Saturn plant just five after Nissan picked Tennessee as the best lace to put the largest Japanese investment in i United States. "Every state can give you a good chamber of lerce speech about why it's the best place, it all we have to Say is, 'Look where the world's company made America's biggest invest­ ment after the biggest study anybody can re- r.' That's a verdict, not a claim." Capital Investments for manufacturing growth 1964 topped the $1.3 billion mark and more 122,000 jobs were created by new and expand- ; businesses. federal Express, Holiday Inns, Hospital Corp. America and Nissan are only a few of the 100 that have corporate headquarters in the ite. American Airlines has announced plans for major air hub at Nashville, and Tennessee iped to 10th place this year on the respected tander Grant & Co. study, evaluating states Offering the best manufacturing climates in lerica. Hottest of all is lush Middle Tennessee -- the Nashville area -- where Nissan set up its pickup and small car plant in Smyrna and where iturn landed in Spring Hill in July after months : courting by hundreds of towns across the iation and an exhaustive search by GM. Coy 4 jr plant nearby. <$oy6trofficials say only that they are looking for a site for a TENNESSEE M «*** .V in txt tuK* (500 million assembly plant and will not make a formal announcement until November, but pub­ lished reports indicate Toyota has narrowed its choices to Lebanon, Tenn. -- just east of Nash­ ville -- and Kansas City, Kan. "The general feeling here is we've got a better shot now at Toyota than we did because of the Saturn thing," said Tony Spiva, professor of economics at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. "There's bouBftit* be a ripple effect. It's possible in another couple of years we could end up as a major automotive state." There are those who would say that time al­ ready has come. Middle Tennessee's rise has been fueled by a number of major factors, from convenience of location to a lack of strong unions: --Nashville, for instance, is within a day's drive of 76 percent of the U.S. population and is served by three interstate highways. 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