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The Law Kept the Word

A federal regulation says nothing distilled outside the United States may be called bourbon, the company that sells more bourbon than anyone else was founded in Osaka in 1899, and the second fact does not break the first. 이 글의 한국어판 → 버번이라는 단어만 미국에 남았다 TWO BOURBONS · FIVE ANSWERS AND ONE BLANK THE AMERICAN SHELF BORN 1795 Jacob Beam’s first jug of whiskey. Maker’s Mark at Loretto, 1952 or 1953. INCORPORATED Delaware One corporation, file number 1-9076. The name has changed four times. HEAD OFFICE Madison Avenue New York, since 2022. The parent, in Osaka since 1899, is not listed. SHAREHOLDERS Not disclosed No table anywhere. Eight directors, three from the founding families. DISTILLERIES Kentucky Clermont and Loretto, and nowhere else in America. THE PAYCHECK U.S. companies New York, Chicago and Loretto. The Loretto one is a benefit corporation. “It has been over 125 years since my great-grandfather, Shinjiro Torii...

The Law Kept the Word

A federal regulation says nothing distilled outside the United States may be called bourbon, the company that sells more bourbon than anyone else was founded in Osaka in 1899, and the second fact does not break the first. 이 글의 한국어판 → 버번이라는 단어만 미국에 남았다 TWO BOURBONS · FIVE ANSWERS AND ONE BLANK THE AMERICAN SHELF BORN 1795 Jacob Beam’s first jug of whiskey. Maker’s Mark at Loretto, 1952 or 1953. INCORPORATED Delaware One corporation, file number 1-9076. The name has changed four times. HEAD OFFICE Madison Avenue New York, since 2022. The parent, in Osaka since 1899, is not listed. SHAREHOLDERS Not disclosed No table anywhere. Eight directors, three from the founding families. DISTILLERIES Kentucky Clermont and Loretto, and nowhere else in America. THE PAYCHECK U.S. companies New York, Chicago and Loretto. The Loretto one is a benefit corporation. “It has been over 125 years since my great-grandfather, Shinjiro Torii...

Not the Product of Any One Manufacturer

The Army wrote to 135 companies and two answered, the federal government ordered the winner to stop saying it created the Jeep, American taxpayers committed $12.5 billion to the wreckage in 2009, and the shares that carry the name today were created under the laws of the Netherlands. 이 글의 한국어판 → 지프를 창안했다고 말하지 말 것 JEEP · SIX BOXES, FOUR BODIES OF LAW THE AMERICAN SHELF BORN 1940 An Army invitation to 135 makers. Two bid. Bantam won; pilot in 49 days. INCORPORATED Netherlands Stellantis N.V., a Dutch company. Listed in New York, Milan and Paris. HEAD OFFICE Hoofddorp Taurusavenue 1, on the SEC filing. The press releases say AMSTERDAM. SHAREHOLDERS Three years Keep common shares that long and the company mints a second, unsellable vote. FACTORIES Ohio, Michigan Wrangler and Gladiator, all from Toledo. Five other countries build the rest. THE PAYCHECK FCA US LLC A Delaware company signs the contract. Four holding companies below the shares....

Mostly Luxottica

Two American sunglass brands, a French-listed owner registered in a Paris suburb, and the president of LensCrafters, on camera, unable to say how many of the frames on his own shelves were made by somebody else. 이 글의 한국어판 → 간판은 여섯인데 고용주는 하나다 RAY-BAN · OAKLEY · THE SIXTH BOX IS EMPTY THE AMERICAN SHELF BORN 1937 · 1977 Ray-Ban in Rochester, New York, inside Bausch & Lomb. Oakley in California. INCORPORATED France EssilorLuxottica S.A., a French company registered as SIREN 712 049 618. HEAD OFFICE Charenton-le-Pont A commune on the southeastern edge of Paris. Results are datelined Paris. SHAREHOLDERS Luxembourg Delfin S.à r.l., the Del Vecchio family holding, on about 32 percent. FACTORIES Italy 41% Six plants in Italy. China and India made 46 percent. Luxottica, 2016. THE PAYCHECK Over 200,000 In 150 countries. The number working in the United States is not published. “Mostly Luxottica?” “I would...