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Old Mar 20, 2006 | 5:39 am
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End of the Line for Boeing 717

http://presstelegram.com/news/ci_3616859

The party was over and the lights were being turned off.
Ron Henson was standing in a corner of one of California's landmark airplane production hangars just off Lakewood Boulevard. For 36 years, Henson rode a bus in from Lakewood paying 45 cents each way to put in a day's work first for the McDonnell Douglas Corp. and then the Boeing Co.
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