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Prediction:
Airbus will have to start counting each plane ordered 3 times to claim the get more numbers each year.
Currently, the only count the same plane twice.
They'd better not be TOO successful or they'll be hauled before a congressional panel to explain themselves.
Perhaps we can get Boeing to manufacture our automobiles and trucks with the same quality as their planes. Then get their marketingand sales staff to sell them to the whole world.
Hmm? Boeing Motors Corp. Has a nice ring to it.
Earnings per share: Jumped 152 percent in the fourth quarter to 58 cents a share, and up 39 percent for the full year to $3.20 a share.
Operating cash flow: Increased 80 percent in the fourth quarter and 100 percent over the full year to a record $7 billion.
Keep it quiet, Boeing. Congress may call for investigations about your making record profits when the economy is going so well.
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Isn't that something? And yet there are gloom-n-doom types here on FR who say American manufacturing is done for and that we'd better get used to flipping each others' hamburgers.