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| | Toledo, city, United States |
 | | Toledo is also an industrial and commercial center, with large oil refineries, a glassmaking industry, shipyards, and plants that manufacture jeeps, automobile parts, machinery, scales, and chemicals. |
 | | Steps in the development of the city included the opening of the canals in the 1840s, the arrival of numerous railroad lines, the development of the Ohio coal fields, the tapping of gas and oil deposits in the late 19th cent., and the establishment of the Libbey glassworks in 1888. |
 | | The city is the seat of the Univ. of Toledo, the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo, and a junior business college. |
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