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...main commercial manufacturing plants at Everett and Renton. But the backlog of unfilled orders has nonetheless swelled from $11 billion at the end of 1978 to some $18 billion now. New Boeings are being wheeled out of production hangars at a rate of 28 a month, a breathless clip that is more than three times the pace of rival McDonnell Douglas. With commercial orders overflowing and the cruise contract now in hand, Boeing expects to add some 5,000 more employees in the next couple of years. To get skilled people, Boeing recruiters have scoured the nation, promising good salaries...
...waiting attorney, William Kutmus, approached the judge and suggested that perhaps his client, Loren R. Wilson, might be of some assistance. Wilson borrowed a paper clip and a pipe wrench, lined up the tumblers in the lock and in three seconds popped the door open...
Carter has spent almost an hour every day for the past month phoning backers in Iowa, and invitations to White House functions have been pouring into the state. Says Floyd Gillotti, deputy auditor of Polk County, who wears a gold tie clip with the presidential seal and Carter's signature: "Who would have thought a son of an immigrant born on the southwest side of Des Moines would pick up the phone and have the White House calling?" Says Steven Schier, a political scientist who has written about the Iowa caucuses: "There's a lot of residual loyalty...
...another TIME military buff, Associate Editor Burton Pines, who received vital logistical support from Reporter-Researchers Betty Satterwhite Sutler and Beth Meyer. To keep abreast of new developments, Pines and Sutter, who have collaborated on most of TIME's defense stories over the past few years, regularly read, clip and stockpile a remarkable variety of military periodicals. "Reading Aviation Week and Strategic Review can be quite interesting," Sutter says, "once you have broken the language barrier." According to Pines, she has done exactly that. Says he: "Betty can talk throw-weights and payloads with the best of them...
...Research Laboratory, contends that new products that promise tidy but unextravagant revenues go unsupported by Big Business even though the initial investment might be low. Says he: "Large companies could care less about the guy who has a $100,000 idea. They'd lose that in the paper-clip account." Such technological triumphs as Xerography and Polaroid film were developed by small innovator-entrepreneurs only after larger firms turned down the ideas...