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...dissolution and reorganization of Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Hughes relinquished all interest in RKO theaters, kept control of the newly formed RKO Pictures Corp. and its subsidiaries, RKO Radio Pictures and RKO-Pathe. Though O'Neil gains RKO Radio Pictures, Hughes (with 1,262,000 shares) and Floyd Odium (with 1,250,000) still control the former parent company...
...defended most eloquently by Barth. "A witness who feels certain that the persons with whom he was associated in the party were as idealistic and misguided as himself, and were as innocent of espionage or sabotage or any criminal activity, can in good faith refuse to expose them to odium and humiliation. He writes, "if these persons have left the party and established respectable positions for themselves which would be destroyed by his disclosures, he can understandably be unwilling to offer them and their families up as sacrificial victims...
URANIUM SHORTAGE will slow down peacetime power developments unless new domestic sources are found, says Atlas Corp. President Floyd B. Odium. By 1965 the U.S. will need as much as 5,000,000 tons of uranium ore annually, and the demand will increase rapidly after that. By 1975, predicts Odium, the U.S. will have a generating capacity of nearly 40 million kw. (38% of the current total) of electric power from nuclear fuels alone...
...paper executive. The 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...
...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...