Boeing Chief Declines To Raise '06 Production Rates

In 1997, the Boeing Co. suffered a supply-chain meltdown when it tried to ramp up commercial aircraft production too quickly, forcing a shutdown of its 747 line for 20 days and delays in 737 deliveries. The company's new CEO, W. James McNerney, Jr., is hell-bent that won't happen on his watch...

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