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1997 Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry
1996 Television industry executives agree to adopt a ratings system 1981 Prime Minister Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France 1980 President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry 1973 Insurance industry announces auto racers get into more highway accidents 1962 U.S. steel industry forced to give up price increases 1958 Recording Industry Association of American created 1949 Britain nationalizes it's steel and iron industry 1948 Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry 1947 Britain nationalizes its coal industry 1943 U.S. forbid racial discrimination in war industry 1943 Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry 1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry 1930 U.S. tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930 1929 Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire 1925 14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry 1914 New York Museum of Science and Industry incorporated 1910 U.S. tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910 1903 Olive Ann Beech, aircraft industry executive 1874 Folkert E. Posthuma, Dutch minister of Agriculture/Industry 1866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in U.S. chemical industry, Dow Chemical 1865 Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies 1864 Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam 1852 John Harvey Kellogg, surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry 1786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry |
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