Washington State: Building Business Legends
January 26, 2022
The pandemic has changed the trajectory of the global economy in ways no one could have imagined. The last seismic shift of this magnitude happened at the end of World War II, when industry and workforces shifted from wartime production to peacetime.
The end of the war had a profound effect on Washington State. Thousands of highly-skilled workers left wartime factories to start their own manufacturing, technology and communications businesses. The state’s anchor industries – timber and natural resources – began to give way to new economic d...
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