In October 1942, Smith-Corona Typewriter Company began producing M1903A3 Springfield rifles at its plant in Syracuse, with assistance from Remington Arms and High Standard Manufacturing Company.
In 1967 Smith Corona Marchant (SCM) Corporation bought the Allied Paper Corporation for $33M
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The new paper-making division was named SCM Allied Paper.
In 1986, SCM was bought by Hanson plc,a British conglomerate,but they had no interest in the paper business, which was no longer as profitable as it had been in the past decades. All the mills were quickly put on sale.
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Hanson UK, formerly Hanson Trust plc, was built up by James Hanson, later Lord Hanson, and Gordon White, later Baron White of Hull, who set up Hanson Trust in 1964
BLAIR & CO. TO JOIN BANK OF AMERICA; Unique Merger Consolidates Old Investment House and Giannini Interests. .
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Central figures in the merger are Amadeo Peter Giannini (who last year secured control of Bank of America and made his brother Attilio Giannini chairman of its board) and Elisha Walker, leader of Blair & Co
Amadeo Pietro Giannini (May 6, 1870 – June 3, 1949) was an American banker who founded the Bank of Italy, which became Bank of America
Giannini helped nurture the motion picture and wine industries in California. He loaned Walt Disney the funds to produce Snow White, the first full-length, animated motion picture to be made in the US en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeo_Gi…
Steven Spielberg and USC Shoah Foundation Institute honor Robert A. Iger, Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company sfi.usc.edu/iger
In January 1986, Hanson bought SCM [Smith-Corona], an American chemicals to typewriters business
In 2007, the German company HeidelbergCement purchased Hanson PLC
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Following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, the cement industry profited massively from state-run construction and armaments projects, leading to a generally positive view of the policies of the Reich government among workers and management of the company
The company's general director Otto Heuer had joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933, and was a member of the Freundeskreis Reichsführer SS
During WW2, the cement industry was classified as essential to the war effort and initially experienced only minor restrictions in production. As the war progressed, prisoners of war and forced labourers were used in numerous plants..
German billionaire Adolf Merckle was a big investor in HeidelbergCement. A capital increase in HeidelbergCement in September 2009, combined with a selling of shares from the Merckle family, opened up for other international owners and higher trading volumes on the stock exchanges
In 2009 Adolf Merckle committed suicide, in despair over the huge losses suffered by his business empire during the financial crisis reuters.com/article/us-mer…
I'm a little confused..
"Africa is world's biggest diamond producer led by Botswana"
And Lesotho is no slouch in the diamond industry department either..🤔
And, coincidentally, both countries have a huge AIDS/HIV problem that requires a small British charity like Sentebale to come in and help them because they don't have the resources to tackle it?
Did I get that right?
Deadline
"Prince Harry lost a venue hired for his African charity Sentebale because he wanted to bring a Netflix camera crew along with him, the chairperson of the charity has claimed." deadline.com/2025/03/prince…
"In an interview with the UK’s Sky News Sunday morning, Dr Sophie Chandauka said an opportunity for Sentebale to do a charity Polo Challenge in Miami was ruined when Harry made the request to bring his Netflix camera crew along...
"Andrew Lownie,who is currently writing a biography of the disgraced royal,has reported difficulties accessing files on the Duke of York.
He has however obtained the MoD’s“Blue Guide”, which instructs censors what topics should be blocked from freedom of information requests."
"It reveals that Saudi Arabia is singled out for special treatment, protecting it from having to reveal information about Britain’s largest arms market."..
"Israel is considered one of the most important countries that import rough diamonds, and the most prominent countries that export polished diamonds. Most of these diamonds come from African countries such as South Africa, Liberia, Congo, Ivory Coast amongst others."🎶