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Subject: [Leica] Re: China, Japan, Thailand, etc.
From: lists at mcclary.net (Harrison McClary)
Date: Thu Feb 5 19:14:39 2009
References: <200902051606.n15G5llu056798@server1.waverley.reid.org> <0A124BC2-D6EF-498E-BE3A-19B6B65F10AF@optonline.net> <8E08486FD56E4CDA938865E9679038E1@D1S9FY41>
 
False:

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/usa.asp


On 2/5/09 11:01 AM, Seth Rosner wrote:
>
> I recall, as a kid, my dad telling me - and I don't know to this day 
> if it is/was fact or apocryphal - that before WWII there was a 
> Japanese town called Usa where much manufacture was done, so that they 
> could mark products: "made in Usa" 


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