And it was the first company to make more than a billion dollars in a year.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

The first company charged was the Whisky Trust.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Last December, the Australia-based company Invetech reported that it had delivered the world's first production model 3-D bio-printer for Organovo.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

The research company IDC says fifty-five million smartphones were sold worldwide in the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

Mister Branson expects his company will be able to take one thousand people into space within the first year of operation.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

The Southern Company plans to build the nuclear power centers with the first starting operations in twenty sixteen.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

He had just become the first African American man to sing with this important American opera company.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

One of his first jobs was with the company responsible for designing the Empire State Building.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

In nineteen thirty-eight, Adair got his first oil-related job with the Otis Pressure Control Company.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Business Improved. Miss Cleveland made her secretary the company's first director of public relations.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Yet this is not the company's first corporate integrity agreement with the government.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

But first,we tell about one company's plan to send passengers into space.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

She was the first woman to head a major American company.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

The first,or prime, vaccine came from the Sanofi Pasteur company.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

The company had its first hit film in nineteen eighty-three.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

The company is making Aprovecho's first mass produced stoves.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

He was the company's first chief safety engineer.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

The company opened its first multiplex theater in mid-June, becoming the latest firm to expand into movie houses.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

General Motors was the first auto company in the United States to mass produce a modern electric car.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Video game company Electronic Arts, the U.S.Census Bureau and vacation rental company HomeAway are among those buying Super Bowl commercials for the first time in 2010.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

The Gibson Guitar Company debuted its first Les Paul model in 1952, which later became the instrument of choice for rock musicians such as Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

"They have seen what happens when patients do not come in for regular check-ups or screenings because either their insurance company does not cover it, or they cannot afford insurance in the first place,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

The Indian unit of General Motors has also announced that it will go ahead with plans to invest more than $200 million to start its first car transmission and engine factory despite the financial problems faced by its parent company in the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13