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... that the Oregon Nursery Company founded the town of Orenco, Oregon in 1908 to house its Hungarian immigrant workers?
... that the hair salon chain First Choice Haircutters helped launch the career of soap opera star Jacqueline MacInnes Wood?
... that Beecher's Handmade Cheese is an artisan cheese maker in Seattle that is known for mixing combinations of cheese cultures?
... that the North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company was the defendant in the first environmental lawsuit in US legal history?
... that Matsukata Kojiro, president of Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, implemented Japan's first eight-hour work day in 1919, after a strike by 30,000 workers threatened to bring down the government?
... that when the Lackawanna Steel Co. moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to New York in 1902, its relocation led to the founding of Lackawanna, New York?