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1. The U.S. steel industry introduced the 5 Day, 40 hour work week in 1923.
2. Before its name was changed in 1924, IBM was known as C-T-R, or Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
3. A Tupperware party starts somewhere in the world every 23 seconds.
4. J.C. Penney's initials stand for James Cash, founder of the store chain in 1902.
5. American Express started off as a shipping company in 1850, shipping financial products across the United States; their first credit card wasn't issued until 1958.
6. Arby's was named for brothers Forrest and LeRoy Raffel (the Raffel Brothers, or RB)
7. Sara Lee is named for the daughter of Chicago bakery owner Charles Lubvin. He first named a cheesecake after his daughter, then in 1951 his company.
8. Nathaniel C. Wyeth, son of artist N.C. Wyeth, brother of artists Andrew, Carolyn and Henriette Wyeth, developed the plastic soda bottle while working as an engineer for the DuPont Company.
9. Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller would be worth upwards of $300 Billion in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
10. Pierre Omidyar had formed a web consulting firm called Echo Bay Technology Group in 1995. When he tried to register EchoBay.com, though, he found that Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company, had gotten it first. Ebay was born.
When me and old Abe used to sit by the fire he would tell me the darndest tales about this great land of ours.
