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…
@FrauHodl @JohnnyVedmore German-born and London-based, Nicole Junkermann began her career in sports and media, co-founding, building and selling a series of high profile, innovative businesses.'' She then established her own private equity fund, investing in a wide range of sectors
@FrauHodl @JohnnyVedmore including Foodtech, Fintech, DeepTech, AI and health-related technologies. In 2018, Nicole was appointed to sit on the UK Government's HealthTech Advisory Board. She now oversees an investment portfolio of 45 companies spanning Europe, the USA and Asia. londontechweek.com/speakers/nicol…
@FrauHodl @JohnnyVedmore There are connections to Estonia's digital ID system , if I remember correctly.
BY Jacob Winter
"75 million years ago, the alien tyrant Xenu brought billions of aliens to the planet Earth, known then as Teegeeack, and wiped them out by placing them next to volcanoes and detonating hydrogen bombs. ..👽🛸🤔
The spirits of these dead aliens, Thetans, possess human bodies and cause emotional distress. This is the secret inner truth behind the religion of Scientology, and something they certainly don’t tell you when you go into one of their Dianetics Life Improvement centres."..
"Bloomberg reported on October 6, 2025, that Citadel is considering launching or investing in a prediction & betting platform. This aligns with broader Wall Street interest in the space, where markets have seen explosive growth post-2024 US elections." tekedia.com/citadel-explor…
This move comes amid a prediction markets boom:Investor Inflows: Billionaires like Charles Schwab and Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao invested in Kalshi a CFTC-regulated platform in June 2025, valuing it at $2 billion. Henry Kravis KKR co-founder is also backing the sector."..🤔