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Fluor Corporation is an American engineering and construction firm, headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is a holding company that provides services through its subsidiaries in three main areas: oil and gas, industrial and infrastructure, government and power. It is the largest publicly traded engineering and construction company in the Fortune 500 rankings and is listed as 265th overall.

Fluor was founded in 1912 by John Simon Fluor as Fluor Construction Company. It grew quickly, predominantly by building oil refineries, pipelines, and other facilities for the oil and gas industry, at first in California, and then in the Middle East and globally. In the late 1960s, it began diversifying into oil drilling, coal mining and other raw materials like lead. A global recession in the oil and gas industry and losses from its mining operation led to restructuring and layoffs in the 1980s. Fluor sold its oil operations and diversified its construction work into a broader range of services and industries. (Full article...)

A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company. It is a business structure that can combine the pass-through taxation of a partnership or sole proprietorship with the limited liability of a corporation. An LLC is not a corporation under the laws of every state; it is a legal form of a company that provides limited liability to its owners in many jurisdictions. LLCs are well known for the flexibility that they provide to business owners; depending on the situation, an LLC may elect to use corporate tax rules instead of being treated as a partnership, and, under certain circumstances, LLCs may be organized as not-for-profit. In certain U.S. states (for example, Texas), businesses that provide professional services requiring a state professional license, such as legal or medical services, may not be allowed to form an LLC but may be required to form a similar entity called a professional limited liability company (PLLC).

An LLC is a hybrid legal entity having certain characteristics of both a corporation and a partnership or sole proprietorship (depending on how many owners there are). An LLC is a type of unincorporated association, distinct from a corporation. The primary characteristic an LLC shares with a corporation is limited liability, and the primary characteristic it shares with a partnership is the availability of pass-through income taxation. As a business entity, an LLC is often more flexible than a corporation and may be well-suited for companies with a single owner. (Full article...)

CBCS Properties, Inc., doing business as Cracker Barrel, is an American chain of restaurant and gift stores with a Southern country theme. The company's headquarters are in Lebanon, Tennessee, where Cracker Barrel was founded by Dan Evins and Tommy Lowe in 1969. The chain's early locations were positioned near Interstate Highway exits in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States, but expanded across the country during the 1990s and 2000s. As of August 10, 2023, the company operates 660 stores in 45 states.

Cracker Barrel's menu is based on traditional Southern cuisine, with appearance and decor designed to resemble an old-fashioned general store. Each location features a front porch lined with wooden rocking chairs, a stone fireplace, and decorative artifacts from the local area. Cracker Barrel partners with country music performers. It engages in charitable activities, such as having given assistance to those impacted by Hurricane Katrina and also to injured war veterans. (Full article...)

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Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation (doing business as AdventHealth, and formerly doing business as Adventist Health System) is an American hospital network headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida, that operates health care facilities across multiple states in the United States. It is the largest Protestant nonprofit organization in the country, and is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

AdventHealth is a founding member of Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) and the Trustworthy and Responsible AI Network (TRAIN). In 2021, it ranked as the second-largest hospital network in Florida, and by February 2023, it was listed as the fifteenth-largest hospital system nationwide. As of December 2025, AdventHealth operates 57 hospitals across nine states, spanning 55 campuses.

On January 2, 2019, the majority of the medical facilities were rebranded to AdventHealth. The rebranding excluded facilities in Colorado, Illinois and Texas that were being operated through joint ventures. (Full article...)

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• ... that the North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company was the defendant in the first environmental lawsuit in US legal history?
• ... that Matsukata Kojiro, president of Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, implemented Japan's first eight-hour work day in 1919, after a strike by 30,000 workers threatened to bring down the government?
• ... that when the Lackawanna Steel Co. moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to New York in 1902, its relocation led to the founding of Lackawanna, New York?
• ... that the site of the first Tubby's sandwich shop was chosen after a flat tire forced its founder to stop in front of a building that was for rent?
• ... that Adina World Beat Beverages was founded in order to keep traditional beverage recipes in third-world countries from being replaced by multinational cola distributors?