Nearly a hundred years later, President Charles de Gaulle repaid U.S. help in the liberation of France by cultivating close ties with the Soviet Union and expelling NATO headquarters from Paris.

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He capitalized on that with sumptuous leather armchairs. (The Titanic sank that year too not a perfect record for luxury goods.) One hundred years later, Poltrona Frau, based now in Tolentino and employing 240 craftsmen, continues Mr. Frau's legacy of fine leather upholstery with not only furniture but interiors for cars (Ferrari, Maserati), boats, planes, trains and helicopters.

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Three years later she purchased her first meat processing company Allied Steaks, and a few years later purchased a large meat processing business with several hundred employees.

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