* A cigarette brand by Imperial Tobacco with British American Tobacco is named Peter Stuyvesant.

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Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937 ( Johns Hopkins University Press ; 2011 ) 248 pages ; examines how marketing, technology, and demand figured in the rise of Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco, a variety first grown in the inland Piedmont region of the Virginia-North Carolina border.

In 2003, Nick Greiner, a former premier of New South Wales, resigned from his position as chair of the University's Graduate School of Management because of academic protests against his simultaneous chairmanship of British American Tobacco ( Australia ).

" President William Howard Taft used the Act to split the American Tobacco Company.

* American Tobacco Company

* American Tobacco Company, broken up in a 1911 antitrust action.

Tobacco, one of the most widely-used addictive substances in the world, is a plant native to the Americas and historically one of the half-dozen most important crops grown by American farmers.

Following extensive merger and acquisition activity in the 1990s and 2000s, international markets are dominated by five firms, in alphabetical order: Altria, British American Tobacco ( represented in the U. S. market by a 42 % stake in Reynolds American, Inc .), Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco, and Philip Morris International.

As of 2007, British American Tobacco, Reynolds American, Imperial Tobacco and Philip Morris are lobbying the European Union to lift a ban on smokeless alternatives to cigarettes.

Natural American Spirit, another R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company brand, also includes cigarette cards on their packs, with information on such things as windpower, diversity, and their farmers.

* Erskine Caldwell: Tobacco Road ( poor whites trying to make ends meet in the American South )

By 1940, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor had successfully organized Hershey's workers under the leadership of John Shearer, who became the first President of Local Chapter Number 464 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers Union.

With many farms and contracts tied to major tobacco companies, like American Tobacco Company, Lorillard, Brown & Williamson, and Liggett Group, the local farmers became prosperous.

* Deputy Chairman and a director of British American Tobacco ( BAT ) ( 1998 – 2007 ), for which Clarke faced allegations relating to activities of BAT in lobbying the developing world to reject stronger health warnings on cigarette packets and evidence that that corporation had been involved in smuggling and targeting children with advertisements.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

Goodwin was telegrapher for the `` American Telegraph Company '' and the `` Troy and Canada Junction Telegraph Company ''.

For its part the Hudson's Bay Company was troubled by the approach of American settlement.

Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 1840.

A brisk, satirical spoof of contemporary American mores entitled `` An American Journey '' was given its first New York performance at Hunter College Playhouse last night by the Helen Tamiris-Daniel Nagrin Dance Company.

The Moiseyev Dance Company dropped in at Madison Square Garden last night for the first of four farewell performances before it brings its long American tour to a close.

* Austin Automobile Company, short-lived American automobile company ( not related to the Austin Motor Company or American Austin )

* American Austin Car Company, short lived American automobile maker

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1811 – Elisha Otis, American inventor and businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company ( d. 1861 )

* 1978 – Jess Margera, American drummer ( CKY, Foreign Objects, Viking Skull, and The Company Band )

His American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site in 1811.

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

* American Broadcasting Company, a private US broadcaster

* ABC Radio, the former name of Cumulus Media Networks, an American radio network ( formerly owned by the American Broadcasting Company )

* ABC News, is the news broadcasting division of the American Broadcasting Company

Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.

A polarizing figure who dominated the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s, as president he dismantled the Second Bank of the United States and initiated ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native American tribes from the Southeast to west of the Mississippi River.

The insignia of Apollo 16 is dominated by rendering of an American eagle and a red, white and blue shield, representing the people of the United States, overlaying a gray background, the lunar surface.

By the time of the cancellation, Nintendo's NES dominated the North American market, controlling 80 % while Atari Corp. controlled just 12 %.

Canada's automobile industry, on the other hand, has been dominated by American firms from its inception, explaining why Canadians use the American spelling of tire ( hence, " Canadian Tire ") and American terminology for the parts of automobiles ( for example, truck instead of lorry, gasoline instead of petrol, trunk instead of boot ).

Conservative elites have long dominated Latin American nations.

Modern American politics has been described as a duopoly since the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated and framed policy debate as well as the public discourse on matters of national concern for about a century and a half.

SunWatch is a partially reconstructed 12th-century prehistoric American Indian village ; the village is organized around a central plaza dominated by wood posts forming an astronomical calendar.

However, not until the late 1980s or early 1990s did film theory per se achieve much prominence in American universities by displacing the prevailing humanistic, auteur theory that had dominated cinema studies and which had been focused on the practical elements of film writing, production, editing and criticism.

Roosevelt dominated the American political scene not only during the twelve years of his presidency, but also for decades afterward.

Following the end of the Second World War, Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain between American dominated non-socialist countries of Europe and Soviet dominated socialist countries of Europe.

By 1913, American and German exports dominated the world steel market, as Britain slipped to third place.

A Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) report was read at the outset to set the heavily anti-Western tone, stating now that " international politics is dominated by the ruling clique of the American imperialists " which have embarked upon the " enslavement of the weakened capitalist countries of Europe.

South American niches for mammalian carnivores were dominated by these marsupial and sparassodont metatherians.

Early European American scholars described the Native Americans as having a society dominated by clans or gentes ( in the Roman model ) before tribes were formed.

Pop music has been dominated by the American and ( from the mid-1960s ) British music industries, whose influence has made pop music something of an international monoculture, but most regions and countries have their own form of pop music, sometimes producing local versions of wider trends, and lending them local characteristics.

By contrast, the American academic geography of that time was dominated by the Berkeley School of Cultural Geography led by Carl O. Sauer, while the spatial distribution of social groups was already studied by the Chicago School of Sociology.

The topography is dominated by the American Cordillera, a long chain of mountains that run the length of the west coast.

Two political parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, have dominated American politics since the American Civil War, although other parties have also existed.

Between the 1930s and 1970s, fiscal policy was characterized by the Keynesian consensus, a time during which modern American liberalism dominated economic policy virtually unchallenged.

During the Lincoln Administration ( 1861 – 65 ), ex-Whigs dominated the Republican Party and enacted much of their so-called " American System ".