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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?