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The world's largest aerospace and defense company, Boeing has annual sales of $61.5 billion and 150,000 employees in 70 countries, including several hundred at its Chicago headquarters. Founder William Boeing starting building airplanes from a hangar in the Seattle area in 1916, and the bulk of Boeing's commercial airplane manufacturing remains clustered near Puget Sound. While European rival Airbus SAS gambled on a super-jumbo jet earlier this decade, Boeing correctly anticipated that airlines valued range and fuel-efficiency over aircraft size. The resulting product, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, has garnered more than $100 billion in sales, although the company has suffered some production s...
The world's largest aerospace and defense company, Boeing has annual sales of $61.5 billion and 150,000 employees in 70 countries, including several hundred at its Chicago headquarters. Founder William Boeing starting building airplanes from a hangar in the Seattle area in 1916, and the bulk of Boeing's commercial airplane manufacturing remains clustered near Puget Sound. While European rival Airbus SAS gambled on a super-jumbo jet earlier this decade, Boeing correctly anticipated that airlines valued range and fuel-efficiency over aircraft size. The resulting product, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, has garnered more than $100 billion in sales, although the company has suffered some production stumbles. The Dreamliner's first flight is set for late 2008.
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Maryland braces for Memorial Day travelers
State transportation officials hope you'll do a lot of sightseeing this Memorial Day weekend. Just not on the Bay Bridge. Travelers headed to the Eastern Shore for the first time since last summer might be surprised. For one thing, the toll has risen...
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Aberdeen and Havre de Grace high schools to be part of AP grant initiative
Aberdeen and Havre de Grace high schools will be participating in a three-year Advanced Placement and training grant initiative. A grant kick-off celebration with an announcement about the initiative will be held 10 to 11:30 a.m. Monday at the A.A....Tags: High Schools, Schools, Colleges and Universities, Students, Havre de Grace
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Havre de Grace, Aberdeen high schools get AP grant
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What's orange, wet and Duff Goldman's nemesis? Sunny-D
The Baltimore SunWe're not going to tell anyone how to run their households, but if anyone ever has Duff Goldman over, here's a hint on what not to pour: Sunny-D. Baltimore's Ace of Cakes really, really, really seems to hate the orange-flavored drink. Like really. It...Tags: Duff Goldman, Jeff Goldblum, Twitter, Inc., Macaulay Culkin
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Southwest takes off with new jet
After two years of comfort-testing its new jets on human bodies of all shapes and sizes, Southwest Airlines was ready to let 153 of its most important bodies — paying customers — aboard Wednesday morning at BWI Marshall Airport.
The maiden...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Southwest Airlines Co., AirTran, Midway Airport
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Southwest to launch new, and improved, jets this month
Longer and more comfortable, and able to make flights to the Caribbean, Mexico and Hawaii, the first of Southwest Airlines' new Boeing 737-800 jets is set to arrive in Baltimore next week. The new cabins are the company's first redesign in a decade, with...
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Obama has betrayed liberals
For too long, Republicans have possessed a very narrow agenda for selecting their candidates. Basically, it has been a requirement of candidates to promise that they would not increase taxes.
ThenGeorge W. Bushcame along, topping the "no tax increases"...Tags: Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Finance, Government Health Care, Credit and Debt
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For second year in a row, BWI sets passenger record
For the second year in a row, passenger traffic set records at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, with 22.39 million ticket holders passing through the gates in 2011. The 2.1 percent increase came as airport officials...Tags: AirTran, Tourism and Leisure Industry, Transportation, Air Transportation Industry, Martin O'Malley
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Harford real estate transactions for November 2011
The following are real estate transactions recorded in Harford County during November 2011: Lisa C. Stone from Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 923 Edmund St., $127,777, 11/1. Jeffrey Lynn Hinte from Jeffrey Lynn Hinte, 521 Windemere Drive,...Tags: Canterbury, Woodbridge, Ryland Group Incorporated, Deutsche Bank AG, Fannie Mae
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Lloyd Pearson, Sun photographer
Lloyd Pearson, a veteran Baltimore Sun photographer whose iconic image of yellow and green Mayflower moving vans rolling the Baltimore Colts out of town during a midnight snowstorm earned him lasting fame, died New Year's Day from complications of...Tags: Johnny Unitas, Pinocchio (movie), New Year's Day, Family, Football
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You want jobs? Here's a better plan
We are in a financial crisis. As I read various papers and listen to the debates on television, it appears that there are two possible ways to approach the situation. One, as espoused by President Barack Obama and other liberals ("Let them eat tax cuts,"...Tags: Barack Obama, Unemployment, Europe, Finance, Wages and Pensions
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Aberdeen planning board gives go-ahead to new hotel
The Aberdeen Planning Commission gave its approval Wednesday to a preliminary site plan for an extended-stay hotel within a mile of the main entrance to Aberdeen Proving Ground. The hotel will be part of Aberdeen Exchange, a commercial development...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Aerospace Manufacturing, Commuting, Havre de Grace, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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