LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: NPR's business news starts with a big boost for Boeing.</s>LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: Workers at a Boeing plant in Long Beach, California, are celebrating a $4 billion order from India. Yesterday, the Indian government approved an agreement to buy 10 C-17 military transport planes. It would be the biggest defense contract the two countries have ever signed. India is spending billions to upgrade its aging and largely Soviet-made military equipment.
Workers at a Boeing plant in Long Beach, Calif., are celebrating a $4 billion order from India. The Indian government approved an agreement to buy 10 C-17 military transport planes on Monday.