Factory labor built China into the world's third largest economy, after the United States and Japan.

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In December 1898, the company opened the world's first wireless factory at Chelmsford in Essex.

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U. is the world's largest producer of factory farmed fur.

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In May, Matsushita, the Japanese firm behind the Panasonic brand, announced that it would build the world's biggest plasma-display factory.

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