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Default Boeing Surplus is closing - how sad

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David R Brooks wrote on Sun, 29 Jul 2007
14:25:45 +0800 in rec.crafts.metalworking :
Wally wrote:
It's been awhile since I'd been there, the selection of goodies the
last couple times was disappointing. I got to talking to one of the
Boeing people there and he agreed. He says, "we don't build anything
anymore, we just assemble". Then he told me they were closing up in
September.


Does that mean the vital parts will now be made in China? Hmm...


Nope. Boeing isn't making parts anymore, but that doesn't mean all
the work went overseas. Some of it went up the road, some of it went to
Montana. BWTH, they moved headquarters to Chicago, so why worry about
King County's inability to see reality?


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