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Word: duwamish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Delight on the Duwamish | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Delight on the Duwamish | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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