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463.5 Business World
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462.5.1 Which cosmetics and perfume company was originally
named The California Perfume Co?

462.5.2 What did Harry Beck design in 1931 which is still used in
London today?

462.5.3 What did Earl W Tupper invent in 1944?

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factoid: a briefly stated and usually trivial fact

The most costly "White-Collar" crime on record was perpetrated by
Yasuo Hamanaka, a Japanese copper trader, who pleaded guilty in 1997
to forgery and fraud in connection with illicit trading that cost his
employer, Sumitomo, an estimated $2.6 billion dollars over ten years.

The LEGO company was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in Billund,
Denmark, in 1916. Today it has over 9,000 employees worldwide. The
Danish words Leg and Godt were put together to make "LEGO." Later, it
was discovered that in Latin, the term "Lego" means "I put together"
or "I assemble."

The world's oldest continuously incorporated company is Canada's
Hudson's Bay Company, which was founded in 1670. The company also
became the largest corporate landowner with holdings that at one time
included about one third of present-day Canada.

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