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…
In other news:
"Among the casualties in yesterday's HHS firings: the chief of the department of bioethics at NIH’s Clinical Center, Christine Grady, who happens to be Anthony Fauci's wife."
July 22, 2016 By Maggie Cochrane
"Two weeks ago, Jack Dausman (Nyumbani USA Board Member) and myself had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Stephen Nicholas, Associate Dean of Admissions, at Columbia Medical Center’s College of Physicians & Surgeons.".. archive.is/vNCB2
"9 Oct 2023 — Chairman Martin Rapaport calls on [diamond and jewelry] trade to boycott Iran and other Hamas supporters, following unprovoked attack on Jewish state."
"The Rapaport Group is with Israel. We support the right of Israel to defend itself and pray for the thousands of innocent people attacked by Hamas and for the innocent Palestinians who will suffer because of Hamas’s savage attacks." rapaport.com/news/rapaport-…
"Rapaport has been both a pioneer and a controversial figure, advocating for price transparency, ethical sourcing, and the commoditization of diamonds. His work extends beyond market analysis to include contributions to addressing conflict diamonds," en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Ra…
Wiki : "The De Beers Group is a South African–British corporation that specializes in the diamond industry, including mining, exploitation, retail, inscription, grading, trading and industrial diamond manufacturing"
"The company is active in open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial and coastal mining. It operates in 35 countries with mining taking place in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Canada."
"On December 6, 1989,he murdered 14 women and wounded another 10 women and 4 men in what is known as the École Polytechnique massacre. It took place at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_L%C3…
Marc Lépine was born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi on October 26, 1964, in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Algerian immigrant Rachid Liass Gharbi and Canadian nurse Monique Lépine (director of nursing at a Montreal hospital)..
"the Foreign Office told Lownie they cannot provide him with information relating to the prince’s visits to Egypt, the UAE, Kuwait, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, partly on the grounds of cost."
"The prince’s visit to Saudi Arabia in 2011 was also rejected due to the fact it would cost the department too much to collect the information for the author."🤔
"Lownie told Declassified: “Over the last four years, I have made over a hundred FOI requests…without eliciting any information on Prince Andrew’s decade as a taxpayer-funded Special Trade Representative.
“Every possible exemption has been deployed to avoid releasing papers"