Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worth of oil in the ground. Yet the stock was then selling around $30. Odium began buying large blocks of Barnsdall stock, by late 1948 had acquired enough (35%) to get control of the company. Odium moved in as chairman, brought along two of his chief Atlas deputies-L. Boyd Hatch and Oswald L. Johnson-as directors early last year. They ran the company so well that in 1949, when the rest of the industry slipped a little from its 1948 high, Barnsdall upped its profits 4% to $14.8 million. Says Odium proudly: "It was probably the only [oil] corporation...
Straight-shooting Movie Cowboy Bill ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd was beginning to look like the biggest moneymaking star in television. In Hollywood, Boyd's managers boasted that 54 Hopalong pictures were grossing $1,000,000 a year on TV. Boyd's take: $150,000 a year-not counting what he makes from movies, radio, personal appearances and various Hopalong cowboy toys and clothes...