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Puget Consumers Co-op, doing business as PCC Community Markets, is a food cooperative based in Seattle, Washington.With over 114,000 members, it is the largest consumer-owned food cooperative in the United States. [3]
A Capitalist Romance: Singer and the Sewing Machine (Lippincott, 1977). Davies, Robert Bruce. Peacefully Working to Conquer the World: Singer Sewing Machines in Foreign Markets, 1854–1920 (Arno Press, 1976). Godley, Andrew. "The Global Diffusion of the Sewing Machine, 1850–1914". Research in Economic History 20#1 (2001): 1–46. Godley, Andrew.
He became CEO in 1984 and expanded the business beyond sewing machines to also include ceiling fans, vacuum cleaners, and commercial floor care products. [1] In 1997, Tacony Corporation transferred vacuum cleaner production from Taiwan to St. James, Missouri. Over one million upright vacuums for home and commercial use have been produced at the ...
Issaquah (/ ˈ ɪ s ə k w ɑː / ISS-ə-kwah) is a city in King County, Washington, United States.The population was 40,051 at the 2020 census. [5] Located in a valley and bisected by Interstate 90, the city is bordered by the Sammamish Plateau to the north and the "Issaquah Alps" to the south.
The Attack on Squak Valley Chinese laborers took place on September 7, 1885, in Squak Valley (now called Issaquah), Washington Territory, when a group of men fired their guns into several tents where a group of Chinese hop pickers were sleeping. The gunfire resulted in the death of three Chinese men and the wounding of three others.
The company was known for high-quality clockwork artillery fuzes, which saw use most notably in the German 88mm anti-aircraft gun. Tavaro was once responsible for a full 11% of Swiss military sales to Nazi Germany. [12] When the Swiss federal government restricted, then banned, exports of war materiel, Tavaro shifted to peaceful industry. At ...
Issaquah High School (also known as IHS or Issaquah) is a four-year public secondary school in Issaquah, Washington, United States, a suburb east of Seattle. It is one of three high schools in the Issaquah School District and serves students in grades 9–12 from the central portion of the district.
Goldwork was originally developed in Asia, and has been used for at least 2000 years. In China, it possibly dates back to the Shang dynasty (c. 1570 BC – c. 1045 BC) according to archaeological studies, [3] but was certainly in use by the Eastern Han dynasty (25 to 220 AD).