Word: odlum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Floyd Bostwick Odlum with his puckish grin came out of the Rockies in 1916, at 23, an idea man for "Old Profanity"-the late Utilitarian Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell -who was then expanding the already huge, sprawling Electric Bond & Share empire. In 1923, young Odlum got to work for himself in a small way. He started Atlas Corp. as a $40,000 investment pool. His associates were his friend George Howard (since 1929 president of United Corp. and still one of Atlas' largest stockholders) and his wife (No.1), able Hortense Odlum (now president of Manhattan's thriving Bonwit Teller...
Described as "unique in the history of finance" by Floyd B. Odlum, President of Atlas, the merger will increase the capital of the airplane company by approximately...