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The Marlboro logo was removed completely or replaced with a white space from 2000 to 2004 (The Ferrari cars had white spaces over Marlboro occasionally in 1998 and 1999), changed to a "bar code" from 1994 to 1999 and in 2005 and 2006, or the text was removed while keeping the chevron with the driver's name and in the team member clothing, the ...
Anschluss: The German army crossed the Austrian border at 8:00 a.m.; Hitler's convoy arrived later that day. [17] Arrests of thousands of potential opponents of the Nazis began. [15] Francoist Spain repealed the Spanish Republic's civil marriage law. [18] Died: Lyda Roberti, 31, Polish-born American actress (heart attack)
At Hitler's request, Franco also met privately with Italian leader Benito Mussolini in Bordighera, Italy on 12 February 1941. [13] Hitler hoped that Mussolini could persuade Franco to enter the war. However, Mussolini was not interested in Franco's help after the series of defeats his forces had recently suffered in North Africa and the Balkans.
Marlboro Friday refers to April 2, 1993, when Philip Morris announced a 20% price cut to their Marlboro cigarettes to fight back against generic competitors, which were increasingly eating into their market share.
Starr, Michael E. "The Marlboro man: Cigarette smoking and masculinity in America." Journal of Popular Culture 17.4 (1984)): 45-57. Stevenson, Terrell, and Robert N. Proctor. "The secret and soul of Marlboro: Phillip Morris and the origins, spread, and denial of nicotine freebasing." American journal of public health 98.7 (2008): 1184-1194. online
January 27, 1938: German War Minister Werner von Blomberg forced to resign by Adolf Hitler after scandal. January 3, 1938: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt co-founds the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and launches the March of Dimes campaign to find a cure for polio.
[citation needed] In King's 2000 book On Writing, he wrote that Chesterfield was the first brand he smoked, and that his World War II veteran uncle dismissed them as "stockade cigarettes." In Oscar Hijuelos ' Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love , several main characters smoke Chesterfield cigarettes.
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 ...