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 * ...that it now requires 250 employees and costs US$9 million to open a new location of the six-year-old America's Incredible Pizza Company?
 * ...that Bankrate monitors about 4,800 financial institutions throughout the United States?
 * ...that Norwegian businessperson Anthon B. Nilsen, founder of the company of the same name, also wrote popular novels and served one term in the Norwegian Parliament?
 * ... that in 1909, the American Brass Company manufactured two-thirds of all the brass in the United States, consumed a third of all copper produced in the U.S., and was the largest fabricator of nonferrous metal in the world?
 * ... that Réseau de Transport d'Électricité, Europe's largest transmission system operator, manages a 100000 km network of high-voltage power lines?
 * ... that Hitachi Zosen Corporation built the first oil tanker in Japan in 1908 per an order by Standard Oil Company?