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The world's largest aerospace and defense company, Boeing has annual sales of $61.5 billion and 150,000 employees in 70 countries, including several hundred at its Chicago headquarters. Founder William Boeing starting building airplanes from a hangar in the Seattle area in 1916, and the bulk of Boeing's commercial airplane manufacturing remains clustered near Puget Sound. While European rival Airbus SAS gambled on a super-jumbo jet earlier this decade, Boeing correctly anticipated that airlines valued range and fuel-efficiency over aircraft size. The resulting product, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, has garnered more than $100 billion in sales, although the company has suffered some production s...
The world's largest aerospace and defense company, Boeing has annual sales of $61.5 billion and 150,000 employees in 70 countries, including several hundred at its Chicago headquarters. Founder William Boeing starting building airplanes from a hangar in the Seattle area in 1916, and the bulk of Boeing's commercial airplane manufacturing remains clustered near Puget Sound. While European rival Airbus SAS gambled on a super-jumbo jet earlier this decade, Boeing correctly anticipated that airlines valued range and fuel-efficiency over aircraft size. The resulting product, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, has garnered more than $100 billion in sales, although the company has suffered some production stumbles. The Dreamliner's first flight is set for late 2008.
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Manufacturing index drops to 26-year low as exports fall due to global slowdown
AP Economics WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ A gauge of U.S. manufacturing activity that fell to a 26-year low Monday followed similarly weak readings in Europe and China, fueling fears of a deepening global downturn. The Institute for Supply Management's index of manufacturing...Tags: Sales, Personal Income, World War II, Wachovia Corp., Stock Activities
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Manufacturing index drops to 26-year low as new orders, production fall
AP Economics WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ A measure of U.S. manufacturing activity fell to a 26-year low in November as new orders dropped for the twelfth consecutive month, a trade group said Monday. The Institute for Supply Management's monthly index of manufacturing activity...Tags: Earnings Forecasts, Machine Manufacturing, Stock Activities
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Thai leader keeps out of capital with no end seen for airport seizures amid political crisis
Associated Press WritersBANGKOK, Thailand (AP) _ Thailand's prime minister stayed away from the capital Monday, unable to quell a political crisis that has paralyzed his government for weeks and shut down the city's two main airports and stranded 300,000 foreigners. Prime...Tags: Demonstration, Corporate Crime, Government, Values, Buddhism
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In Jones, Obama taps security aide with vast military and diplomatic skills
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ President-elect Barack Obama's pick to be national security adviser is a Vietnam war veteran who rose to become a Marine four-star general and NATO commander, but is at least as well known for his diplomatic skills. Gen. James L....Tags: John McCain, National Security, The White House, Government, NATO
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Mid-America survey state-by-state glance
The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same methodology as the national...Tags: Industrial Production, Unemployment, Inventories, Business, Machine Manufacturing
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On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., bus
Today is Monday, Dec. 1, the 336th day of 2008. There are 30 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus. Mrs. Parks was...Tags: Management Change, Bette Midler, David Ben-Gurion, Hampton Roads, Punishment
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With vintage satellites still in orbit, sales are grounded
If only cars could last so long. This month, a satellite resembling a shiny spinning drum and orbiting 21,156 miles above Earth celebrated its 41st birthday, astounding engineers and scientists, some of them the children of those who built it. For...Tags: Heads of State, Sales, Government, Satellite Technology, Engineering
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Blame and a bridge
The Minnesota bridge was 1,907 feet long and, when it began ripping apart, its first reaction was to undulate as if waving goodbye. Then it wrote an epitaph in stark statistics: • Portions of the span that collapsed at that rush-hour moment held...Tags: Natural Science, Regional Authority, Vehicles, Transportation Industry, Tim Pawlenty
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almanac: Nov. 27, the 332nd day of 2008
There are 34 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside city hall by former supervisor Dan White. On this date: In...Tags: Murder, Injuries
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Boeing finds more defective fasteners
Defective fasteners, reported two weeks ago on Boeing 737s, also have been found in its wide-body jets, further delaying a return to full production, the company said Wednesday. The fasteners are used to attach wiring and other components inside...Tags: Beverly
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Bangkok airports shutdown ripples through region as hopes for quick resolution fade
AP Business WriterBANGKOK, Thailand (AP) _ The severing of air links with Thailand's capital — a vital air hub that handles 3 percent of world air cargo and 100,000 travelers a day — rippled through the region with airlines scrambling to reroute passengers...Tags: Demonstration, Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, Automotive Equipment, Government, Gold and Precious Material
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Museum recalls Downey's Space Age glory
For half a century, life in Downey revolved around the 167-acre NASA site in the middle of town. It was there, in airplane hangars erected on former bean fields, that the city's men and women designed and built the spaceships that took the first...Tags: NASA, Technology, Linthicum, Huntington (Hungtington, New York), Aerospace Manufacturing
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