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 * ... that Beecher's Handmade Cheese is an artisan cheese maker in Seattle, Washington 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?
 * ... that the site of the first Tubby's sandwich shop was chosen after a flat tire forced its founder to stop in front of a building that was for rent?
 * ... that Adina World Beat Beverages was founded in order to keep traditional beverage recipes in third-world countries from being replaced by multinational cola distributors?