McMinnville


McMinnville,

city (1990 pop. 17,894), seat of Yamhill co., NW Oreg.; inc. 1876. It is a trade and processing center in the fertile Willamette valley. Foods, textiles, and building materials are produced, and there are wineries. Linfield College is in McMinnville. In 1992 the city acquired the "Spruce Goose," the 200-ton (180-metric-ton) wooden aircraft with a wingspan of 320 ft (97.6 m) built by Howard HughesHughes, Howard Robard,
1905–76, U.S. business executive, b. Houston. As a young man he inherited (1925) the patent rights to an oil tool drill, which, manufactured by the Hughes Tool Company, formed the basis of his financial empire.
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 during World War II.