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...ATLAS CORP. is adding uranium to its interests. President Floyd B. Odium has bought a large group of mining claims owned by Prospector Charles A. Steen (TIME, Aug. 3) on the rich Colorado Plateau near Moab, Utah. The claims will be worked by the Lisbon Uranium Mining Corp., 60% of which has just been bought by three Odium subsidiaries in a stock and cash deal...
...Western states last week, there was a feverish new boom in penny uranium stocks. People with a few spare dollars were taking flyers in such stocks as Uranium, Inc., Sun Uranium, Atlas Uranium. Penny Stock, and Uranium Corp. of America. The fever started in Salt Lake City, spread to Denver, and to the San Francisco Mining Exchange. There, said President George Flach, the uranium boom has brought "the brightest prospects I've seen around here in ten or 15 years...
Portable Escort. A tiny but clamorous siren for unescorted women to carry at night was put on sale by Dallas' Atlas Alarm Corp. Noisy enough to be heard a quarter of a mile away, the spring-powered siren is intended to scare off molesters and summon rescuers. Price...
...jittery, one of Wall Street's shrewdest traders, Floyd Odlum, had at least turned cautious. After unloading Consolidated Vultee (TIME, April 6) just before its stock broke, Odlum's Atlas Corp. was 38% in cash and Government securities (total: $68 million), and at Atlas' annual meeting last week he told the stockholders that he intended to keep it that way for "weeks or months" while he took a breathing spell. In short, Odlum seemed to be betting he could buy stocks lower later...
...Like Atlas, the Greentree Stable's Tom Fool is constantly being made to carry the weight of the world on his back. At least so it seems to Greentree's Trainer John Gaver, the man who sends the handsome bay colt to the races. As a three-year-old Tom Fool was ailing, and never got a chance to run in the Kentucky Derby or the other three-year-old classics. But this year, a filled out, mature four-year-old, Tom Fool is already being talked of as one of the top handicap horses of all time...