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Marlboro (US: / ˈ m ɑː l ˌ b ʌr oʊ /, [2] [3] UK: / ˈ m ɑːr l b ər ə, ˈ m ɔː l-/) [4] is an American brand of cigarettes owned and manufactured by Philip Morris USA (a branch of Altria) within the United States and by Philip Morris International (PMI, now separate from Altria) in most global territories outside the US.
Hayes, Carlton J. H. Wartime mission in Spain, 1942–1945 (1945) ISBN 978-1121497245. by the U.S. ambassador; León-Aguinaga, Pablo. "The Trouble with Propaganda: the Second World War, Franco's Spain, and the Origins of US Post-War Public Diplomacy." International History Review 37.2 (2015): 342–365. online [dead link ]
Philip Morris International is often referred to as one of the companies comprising Big Tobacco. The company originated in 1847 in London . However the present company was founded in March 2008 when it was spun off by its then American parent Altria group, of which Philip Morris International was an operating company of.
In 1976, Marlboro became the leading brand in the U.S.; Morris operated as the largest seller of tobacco in the U.S. and the second-largest in the world. In 2001, Kraft Foods launched an initial public offering (IPO) for 11.1% of the company that took in $8.7 billion, making it the second-largest IPO in American history at the time.
The Second Spanish Republic's economy was mostly agrarian, and many historians [attribution needed] call Spain during this time a "backward nation". Major industries of the Second Spanish Republic were located in the Basque region (due to it having Europe's best high-grade non-phosphoric ore) and Catalonia.
Also, by decree of Heinrich Himmler on 14 January 1941, a Colonial Police Office was established under the command of Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, while in March 1941 a first colonial police school (with Helbert Jilski as his commander) was inaugurated on the Oranienburg Palace (near
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On August 3, 1933, Adolf Hitler received Sosthenes Behn (then the CEO of ITT) and his German representative, Henry Mann, in one of his first meetings with US businessmen. [16] [17] [18] [need quotation to verify] In his book Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Antony C. Sutton claims that ITT subsidiaries made cash payments to SS-leader ...