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Boeing, Plane Builder, DeadFamous for His | B17, B29 BombersiSen tile—(/i'j—William E. Boe-, ing Sr., founder of the 'aircraft company that, builds one of the . world's largest jet bombers, died Friday of a heart attack.The millions) re industrialist, who retired some years ago, died aboard his yacht just two days \ before his 75th birthday.Boeing was the son of a weai-; thy Michigan lumberman and I came to the Pacific Northwest inij 1902 to enter the logging busi-! ness. After developing ex ten-1 sive timber and mining inter-: e.sts, he took up flying a float plane.A crash landing sheared the pontoons from Boeing's plane and the plane manufacturer said it would be weeks, possibly months, before new ones could be had.Disgusted, Boeing said he would build his own- and the re.\! of the plane, too. He did, founding the Pacific Aero Pro-: (iiicu-, Co. in 1916 with 30 employ es.«'I'iu; company prospered and j eventually became the Boeing; Airplane Co., producing first; s:u;.:!i- and then mull-i-engmcd | p!;ii;'.v. For World War II it built tin; B17 and Us successor,: the B29.
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Clinton Herald
Clinton, Iowa, US
Sat, Sep 29, 1956
Page 22
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