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  2. Category:Companies established in the 1950s - Wikipedia

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    Retail companies established in the 1950s (10 C, 1 P) T. Toy companies established in the 1950s (6 C) Transport companies established in the 1950s (11 C)

  3. American automobile industry in the 1950s - Wikipedia

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    The 1950s mark the peak of union membership as a percentage of the total US workforce, with labor membership peaking at 35 percent of the nonagricultural workforce by mid-decade. [97] The United Auto Workers (UAW) was founded in 1935 and helped play a major role in reshaping the automotive industry after World War II.

  4. List of defunct consumer brands - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of defunct (mainly American) consumer brands which are no longer made and usually no longer mass-marketed to consumers. Brands in this list may still be made, but are only made in modest quantities and/or limited runs as a nostalgic or retro style item. A set of signs promoting Burma-Shave, on U.S. Route 66

  5. List of defunct retailers of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Al's Auto Supply – Chain that operated in Washington, California, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and Alaska; purchased by CSK Auto.Founded by Abe "Al" Wexler in Everett, Washington in the late 1950s; [1] [2] sold 15 store chain to Paccar in 1987; [3] Paccar sold chain (along with Grand Auto) in 1999 to CSK Auto which eventually rebranded stores as Schucks.

  6. Category:Companies established in 1950 - Wikipedia

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    1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Subcategories. This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total. Companies established in 1950 by ...

  7. You Might Be Surprised to Find That These 'US' Brands Aren't ...

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    Still one of the most recognizable bicycle brands, Schwinn produced and sold lightweight U.S.-made bikes from a Chicago plant until 1991, when cheap international competitors prompted the company ...

  8. Category:1950s fashion - Wikipedia

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    Brightly colored clothes and accessories became fashionable in the 1950s and the bikini was developed. The main article for this category is 1945–1960 in Western fashion . See also: Category:1950s clothing

  9. List of defunct department stores of the United States

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    F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...