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Old December 22nd 04, 04:26 AM
Herb Schaltegger
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In article .com,
"Ed Kyle" wrote:

Note: Seattle probably doesn't care much. Boeing's
headquarters is in Chicago. Boeing's Integrated Defense
Systems is HQ'd in St. Louis. The Delta IV work is
centered in Decatur, Alabama. They still assemble a few
airplanes, I hear, in the Seattle area, but fewer every
year.


Picky, picky . . . It was Seattle back when I worked there . . . it
was Seattle when my favorite undergrad prof worked there . . . it was
Seattle in 1916/17 when Bill Boeing was building his company from
scratch . . . It was Seattle when McD in St. Louis adopted it's
ballyhooed TQMS program in the '90 which was widely speculated within
the industry to mean "Time to Quit and Move to Seattle" . . . I know
they moved corporate there a year or two ago for no apparent good, but
it'll always be Seattle to me, damn it! :-)

And I know where the Delta IV facility is; my best friend from SSF in
Huntsville transferred to Decatur in the mid-90's as they were
building the factory and the father of one my legal assistants just
took a job there and starts next month. :-p

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