Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herald Tribune; Writers Stuart Chase, John Gunther and Louis Adamic, Editor Freda Kirchwey of the Nation; Federal Judge Thomas D. Thacher, one time President of the New York City Bar Association; Banker John Hertz Sr. of Lehman Bros.; President Samuel Zemurray of United Fruit ; President Floyd Bostwick Odium of Atlas Corp., monster investment trust in which Alex Gumberg was a sort of minister without portfolio...
...Although Atlas paid him $35,000 per year, Alex Gumberg had no title and his duties were vague. He handled public relations, sat in on negotiations, represented Atlas officially or unofficially in some cor porations that big Atlas controls. Did a financial reporter need some hard-to-get information? Alex Gumberg could and would get it for him. Did the Russian Ambassador want to justify Purges to the Press? Alex Gumberg arranged an off-the-record dinner-in the name of the Nation...
...when the airline business suddenly looked good, Partner John D. Hertz (Yellow Cab Co.) of Lehman Bros, joined with Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. to purchase 81,204 shares of T. W. A. from General Motors at some $14.50 a share. This 13% interest gave them operating control. Next year T. W. A. made $205,000 and its stockclimbed to $27.50. But in 1937 T.W.A. lost $959,000, in 1938 $773,000. Its stock dropped to $4, was last week at $8 when Lehman Bros, announced with an audible sigh of relief that it had sold out to Jack...
Back Door to Heaven (Odessco Productions, Paramount release) is an awkward attempt to crash the back door of the cinema industry. It is notable as the first effort of a new producing company headed by Bernard Steele and Stanley Odium (son of Investment Truster Floyd Bostwick Odium, whose Atlas Corp. has a large stake in Radio-Keith-Orpheum and who reportedly put up part of the $350,000 it cost to make the picture in Astoria...
...Federal Trade Commission issued cease-&-desist papers against Angelo Siciliano (naked name: Charles Atlas), mailorder musclebuilder. Their orders: that he stop using the word "free" in connection with a ten-volume Sex Encyclopedia offer (customers get them after they have paid up all of a $20 fee for lessons), stop stating that his course relieves skin diseases and constipation, tone down his claims that he can make his customers look something like himself ("World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" in a leopardskin loincloth). Hopping mad, Strongman Atlas gritted: "Why don't they leave me alone with...