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  1. William Everett Wing (born William Ernett Wing; July 4, 1869 – March 10, 1947) was an American screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote " scenarios " for at more than 90 films between 1912 and 1927.

  2. William E. Wing was born on 4 July 1869 in Maine, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Speed Madness (1925), The Lure of the Circus (1918) and Hands Across the Border (1926).

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    • Maine, USA
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    • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Background
    • The Flying Fortress
    • A New Industry

    Born in Detroit, Boeing studied at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University but left after two years without graduating. He then moved to Seattle, where he became a prominent timberman, landowner, and yachtsman. Inspired by the new field of aviation, he organized the Boeing Airplane Company in 1915 with a friend, Conrad Westervelt, hoping...

    During World War II the Boeing Company utilized technological innovations made during the 1930s. Boeing had begun expanding his factories in 1936 in anticipation of war, and the number of employees in the Seattle plants increased to 2,960 by the end of 1938, reaching 28,840 at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Boeing...

    During the 1950s the Boeing Company prospered, though Boeing's health failed and he no longer had any financial connection with it. In the years of prosperity that followed World War II the Boeing Company profited from the expansion of the commercial airline industryby building the Boeing 707 passenger plane. Furthermore, with the advent of the Col...

  3. William Edward Boeing ( / ˈboʊɪŋ /; October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956) was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later. The company is now the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value and among the largest aerospace manufacturers in the world.

  4. William E. Wing. Writer: Speed Madness. William E. Wing was born on 4 July 1869 in Maine, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Speed Madness (1925), The Lure of the Circus (1918) and Hands Across the Border (1926).

  5. William E. Wing is known as an Writer, Story, Scenario Writer, Screenplay, Adaptation, and Co-Writer. Some of his work includes Death's Marathon, Sold for Marriage, The Courage of the Commonplace, The Coast Patrol, Savages of the Sea, Before the White Man Came, The Lure of the Circus, and A Woman in the Ultimate.

  6. Company Founder and Owner, President, Chairman of the Board Boeing, 1916-1934. William E. Boeing left Yale University in 1903 to take advantage of opportunities in the risky and cyclical, but financially rewarding, Northwest timber industry. That experience would serve him well in aviation.