On December 31, 1969, figures released by Boeing show that employment declined during the year by 20 percent to 80,000 from a peak of 101,300.
Boeing releases figures showing employment has dropped by 20 percent during the year on December 31, 1969.
- By Alan J. Stein
- Posted 6/13/1999
- HistoryLink.org Essay 1347
Sources:
Walt Crowley, Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), 279.
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