Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five-day tour of North African air bases, NATO Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway took time out to join a hunting party in the Atlas mountains organized by the Pasha of Marrakech. The trip's bag: 17 mountain goats...
Financier Floyd Odium, boss of Atlas Corp., is famed for buying shaky companies, restoring them with sound management, and selling them at a handsome profit. This week he did it again. He sold Atlas Corp.'s control of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. to General Dynamics Corp. for $8,700,000 in cash plus $910,000 in stock, more than double what Atlas paid in 1947. With that, he got ready for new "special situations," said breezily: "I've got them flying around my shoulders...
...Atlas Corporation's Floyd Odium considered buying back control...
When Floyd B. Odium's Atlas Corp. bought control of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft in 1947, it looked as if Speculator Odium had made a mistake. That year Convair lost $32.4 million on its C-24O twin-engine airliner, proceeded to drop about $11 million more on it in 1948. But even before the Korean war began, Convair's B-36 bomber had become the Air Force's intercontinental bomber and Convair began to make money. From war orders, Convair made $3,700,000 in 1949, more than $10 million...
...turned in its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides. The caves that surround the Neapolitan gulf fell into a profounder shade, each giving forth from the darkness its chiming or its booming sound. Triumph had passed from Greece and wisdom from Egypt, but with the coming on of night they seemed...