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…
"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"
"The hard-hitting themes of incel culture raised in the hit Netflix series Adolescence are being addressed in a new resource for secondary schools from charity Into Film." sec-ed.co.uk/content/news/a…
"Adolescence tells the story of how a family’s world is turned upside down when 13-year-old Jamie Miller is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school.
The four-part Netflix series includes themes of incel culture, mysogyny, and the treatment of women."
"Through PSHE lessons, boys are taught at increasingly young ages to explore their sexuality and consume pornography “sensibly” – something which drives them further into the darkest parts of sexual violence, addiction and degrading misogyny."
- Catholic Herald
"The show has been so influential that the UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has called for the programme to be shown in schools to raise awareness of the issues."🤔 thecatholicherald.com/adolescence-wh…
"In the show, Jamie commits the murder because he is being bullied by his victim, Katie, who is commenting on Instagram posts, calling him an “incel” (involuntary celibate)."..
Forbes:
"Julio Mario Santo Domingo III, an heir to one of the world's largest beer fortunes, is a disc jockey in New York City for the group Sheik 'N' Beik.".. 🎶
"He inherited his wealth from his late grandfather, who owned a large stake in SABMiller following its 2005 acquisition of family brewer Bavaria." forbes.com/profile/julio-…
'Delfina Blaquier is the daughter of Argentine racing driver Delfina Frers and Eduardo Blaquier, a member of one of the wealthiest families in Argentina. ' ..🎶
"Donald Trump Jr. caused an uproar among some when pictures surfaced of him holding the tail of a dead elephant after a big-game hunt in Africa years ago. Now, new policy changes proposed by his father’s administration may allow Americans to bring the carcasses of elephants &..
and lions killed in Zimbabwe & Zambia back to the US.
The importing of so-called hunting trophies was banned by former President Obama in 2014, but the Fish & Wildlife Service announced that it will allow Americans to bring back elephant & lion trophies."