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		krschultz on June 1, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M. Really? GM is not the largest company to ever have gone bankrupt in this country. Many of the railroads were larger when they went under.

kqr2 on June 1, 2009 [–]

According to this article, GM is the largest industrial company to go bankrupt in the US:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6451802.html

Overall, it is only the 4th largest bankruptcy in the US.

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