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The Rockefeller empire creates "Big Pharma."

Date: 1939

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In 1939, a "Drug Trust" alliance is formed by the Rockefeller family and the German chemical company IG Farben, which is today known as Bayer.

After World War II, IG Farben will be dismantled, but will re-emerge as separate corporations within the alliance, which also includes General Mills, Kellogg, Nestle, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Procter & Gamble.