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Bundled against the late-night chill, placard-carrying pickets took up their posts last week at plant gates all around Seattle. Suddenly, the world's busiest producer of commercial aircraft was crippled. The strike at Boeing by more than 57,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers brought new-plane production to a virtual halt at the company's main manufacturing plants in the Seattle area, where 43,000 of the machinists work, and at other factories in Portland, Ore., and Wichita...
...foreign investors. Like well-heeled Christmas shoppers, they scooped up some of the most famous names in American retailing, from Bloomingdale's to Bonwit Teller. Now several store chains are suddenly up for sale again, creating a sense of turmoil in retailing just as it heads into its busiest season...
...anymore. The new Big Kahuna Wave Pool is luring scorched Midwesterners to Noah's Ark Water Park, where 600-h.p. air compressors send waves rolling from one end of the 600-ft. pool to the other. The waves are kept to a modest 3 ft. during the busiest hours of the day, but visitors who arrive early enough after the 9 a.m. opening can play in the giants...
...Denver, despite the economy's woes, the new airport still faces determined opposition. It will be a mammoth project, far bigger than Chicago's O'Hare and Dallas-Fort Worth combined. Building it will entail shutting down the 60-year-old Stapleton Airport, the nation's fifth busiest...
Yesterday, the busiest travel day of the week, scenes of anger and confusion were played out at Miami International Airport and at airports from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Los Angeles and from Miami to New York. Some Eastern planes were stranded on Caribbean islands without crews, the company added...