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...biggest claim buyer of all is Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odlum, who bought out Vernon Pick's Delta uranium mine for $9,000,000 (TIME, Sept. 6), is now on his way to gathering up the biggest acreage. His Federal Uranium Corp. will combine his Federal Uranium Co. with six companies (Kentucky-Utah Mining Co., Western States Uranium Co., Interstate Uranium Co., Utida Uranium Co., Howell Mining Co. and Uranium Inc.) holding total claims with an estimated $6,000,000 to $7,000,000 in ore reserves. Much of the new buyers' rush is for Federal...
...flashiest boat was Century Boat Co.'s chrome-trimmed, 55-m.p.h. Coronado speedboat, with wrap-around windshield and a 285-h.p. Cadillac V-8 engine. Ten minutes after the doors opened, Radu Irimescu, onetime Rumanian Minister to the U.S., who now works for Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., snapped it up for about...
With that chilling report, an old Air Force program called Atlas was revived and thrown on a crash priority basis...
...uranium boom on the Colorado Plateau has spawned another crop of big rich, led by Vernon Pick, who sold his uranium mine to Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. for $9,000,000 (75% of which Pick kept under capital gains), and Charles Steen, whose Utex Exploration Co. (90% owned by Steen) has an estimated $150 million worth of uranium underground. Hollywood's high-paid stars, who by tradition blow their wealth on caviar and Cadillacs, have also learned how to join the ranks of the new millionaires. Bing Crosby, for example, was able to buy 20,000 shares...
Married. Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odium, 62, onetime (1934-40) president of Manhattan's Bonwit Teller (women's fashions); and Angel Kouyoumdjisky, sixtyish, pre-World War II Bulgarian banker; she for the third time (her first: Floyd Odium, president of Atlas Corp.), he for the second; in Manhattan...