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
🍿
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanson_(c…
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. .
content.time.com/time/subscribe…
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
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelber…
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…
"Action on Addiction is a UK-based charity that works with people affected by drug and alcohol addiction..The Princess of Wales has been patron since January 2012. The charity merged with The Forward Trust in May 2021." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forwa…
"After 3 years of sleuthing, John Klyczek has completed the final installment in his investigative series on the legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard." 🍿🎶
"Are these overlaps between New Age sex cults and intelligence agencies merely tenuous coincidences? Or do these patterns suggest the existence of underground networks of intelligence operatives ?"🎶
2023
"CRISPR Therapeutics announced that Brad Bolzon, Ph.D., Chairman and Managing Director of Versant Ventures 🇺🇸🇨🇭, is stepping down from the Board of Directors"🤔