Word: duwamish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rambling Boeing Aircraft plant on the Duwamish River near Seattle workmen last week were putting the finishing touches on five of the world's most remarkable airplanes, the Boeing 314 flying boats for transoceanic service (another is already completed). Forty-two-ton monsters each as high as a two-story house and as powerful as 6,000 horses, the four-motored ships are the largest ever built for commercial service. Last week in Manhattan, Pan American Airways President Juan T. Trippe announced that his company's purchase of these six Boeings had been financed like ordinary railroad cars...
...Clipper. Down the ways at the Boeing plant in Seattle fortnight ago the largest U. S. seaplane ever built slipped gently into the narrow Duwamish Waterway. The launching of the 41-ton, 4-motored Boeing 314 Clipper, destined one day to fly the oceans for Pan American Airways, relieved congestion at Boeing's, where there are under construction five more Clippers and the first Stratoliner, built like the Army's Flying Fortress, but equipped with a pressurized cabin.* Down the Duwamish tenders carefully nudged the great flying boat, nursed her sidewise through bridge spans narrower than...
...ship could not be held to her mooring. As far as Veteran P.A.A. Test Pilot Edmund Allen could see, there was only one thing to do. Starting his motors, he ordered the stern line off, and the Clipper started across the bay. She thundered for the open Sound off Duwamish Head, cleared the water once, settled back, rose anew, spindrift spuming from her hull step, wake boiling behind. At 80 miles she skimmed from the waves, into the air. Thirty-eight minutes later Pilot Allen brought her down in Seattle's sheltered Lake Washington. Said he, pleased as Punch...
...splendid wing design, P. A. A. last autumn gave Boeing a contract for six gigantic Clippers, each to have two decks, carry 60 passengers, weigh 41 tons, speed at 200 m.p.h. These vast flying boats are now well along at Boeing's plant on the Duwamish Waterway, Seattle, the biggest seaplanes under construction in the U. S. Last week Boeing won an even juicier contract - to build the biggest land transports...
...Duwamish Waterway, booming Boeing last week began adding to its 2,000 employes, secretively kept figures to itself, but delightedly announced that its unfilled contracts totted up to the biggest sum in the company's 21-year history. "Henceforth" remarked Claire Egtvedt, "Boeing will build only four-motored jobs...