Word: renton
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...Born in Renton, Wash., in 1911, the son of a Bavarian immigrant whose various jobs included managing apartment buildings, Stigler graduated from the University of Washington in 1931. Seeing little if any chance to land a paying job in the depths of the Great Depression, he decided to try his hand at graduate school. The fateful decision took Stigler first to Northwestern University in Chicago for a master's degree, and thereafter to the University of Chicago for a Ph.D. His first teaching post was an assistant professorship at Iowa State University. In 1941 Stigler published his first work...
...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...