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...traumatic as the upset was for Boeing, however, it was equally painful for the city of Seattle. With the Puget Sound's largest single employer facing ruin and the tarmac at Boeing's Everett assembly plant, the biggest such plane factory in the world, choked with unsold jumbo jets, Seattle's entire economy went into a slump. A grimly cynical highway billboard on a road heading out of town summed up the prevailing gloom: "Will the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights...
...most dramatic gains of all have come in the company's bulging commercial order book. Production was stepped up 47% during 1979 in the company's 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...
...phosphorous trichloride, a colorless liquid used in water treatment by the Everett plant of the Monsanto Chemical Corporation, streamed steadily down the side of the ruptured car yesterday morning...
...blocks down, and four blocks up the hill, Sen. William D. Proxmire (D- Wisc.) is holding hearings to decide on the fate of the National Science Foundation's budget in fiscal 1981. It is very dark in room 1318 of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Senate Office Building, but Proxmire's tongue cuts through the bureaucratic gloom. Proxmire is asking a quivering panel of NSF administrators why their agency spent $35 a day to finance a graduate student's research on "The Development of Political Institutions in Colorado in the 19th Century" when a man in Maine spends the same amount...
...Indeed, it is the link between the tactical weapons and the strategic weapons which makes the total nuclear arsenal so unstable and dangerous and demands that military solutions not be easily drifted into by the super powers as they flex their muscles in southwest Asia and the Middle East. Everett Mendelsohn Professor of the History of Science