Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 whose earnings in 1949 were...
...Armistice Day. Just outside Vienna, in the Russian occupation zone, a U.S. Army jeep turned into a side road. Between the dark, heavy-set U.S. soldier at the wheel and the slight, fair-haired soldier on the right cowered an Austrian civilian named Oswald Eder. "Where are you taking me?" he cried. The smaller soldier jammed a gun into his ribs and snarled: "Shut up!" The jeep stopped, and at gunpoint, his escorts forced Eder into the waiting arms of seven Russian agents who set upon him with fists and revolver butts...
Kidnaping and beating are nothing unusual in occupied Vienna, where the bare description of a day's events is apt to read like a Raymond Chandler thriller; since 1945, Russians have kidnaped 660 people in Vienna, usually political "suspects." What was unusual and shocking about the abduction of Oswald Eder on Armistice Day was that it was executed by American G.I.s who had hired themselves out to the Russians...
...Toronto, Bridge Expert Oswald Jacoby stuck his neck out: "Canasta is the only game that my wife and I could play . . . with some of our half-witted friends. [It] can be enjoyed by everyone, unlike bridge, where a poor player can spoil the game for others...