Word: odlum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aircraftmaker last week set up a rental agency for airlines that need new planes but lack the cash to buy them. Floyd Odlum, whose Atlas Corp. controls Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., announced that he would form a $50-million-plus company to buy 100 twin-engined, 40-passenger Convair-Liners. (It will also give Convair some badly needed business.) The planes will be rented out to airlines which may buy them later at cost less depreciation. Odlum hopes eventually to finance the planes of other aircraftmakers in the same...
There was more to it than just another name-in-the-news. Jackie Cochran's husband, famed Financier Floyd Odlum, had been dickering for Liberty for several months. (Marshall Field tried, and found the price too high.) Last week the sale price (nearly $5,000,000) was set and just about...
Even the by-line of Jackie Cochran and the big purse of Odlum's Atlas Corp. (oil, airlines, utilities, Manhattan's swank Bonwit Teller store, movies) could not solve the wartime paper problem. But it might well help develop Liberty's new lease on life into a more successful pursuit of advertisers...
Hollywood rumor had it that David Selznick had his eye on 50% of RKO's stock. But his eyes were big. Floyd Odlum's Atlas Corp., which owns 46% of RKO, has shown no inclination to sell even one of its 1,300,000 shares...
...WASPs, who had done a man-sized job of flying for the Army, had asked for it. Through their head woman, famed speed-flying Jacqueline Cochran (wife of tycoon Floyd B. Odlum), they had demanded the same military status as the WACs, WAVEs, SPARs and Women Marines. In spite of Hap Arnold's earnest support of the plan, which would have made Jackie Cochran a colonel, Congress had turned thumbs down...