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Quick Change. But Odium never believes in riding a good horse until it tires. Last week, when Tulsa's close-trading Clarence H. Wright, president of Sunray Oil Corp., offered him approximately $44.8 million for his Barnsdall stock, Odium took it-and with it a cool $12 million clear profit for Atlas. It was one of the quickest major in-&-out deals in Odium's history. By contrast, he spent 17 years tinkering with the management of Manhattan's Bonwit Teller fashion store before he sold for more than $10 million a block of stock which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Bargain Counter | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...Odium's willingness to unload Barnsdall mean that Sunray got the short end of the bargain? Sunray's Clarence Wright did not think so-and his reputation as a shrewd trader is almost as legendary as Odium's. Wright, a onetime ready-to-wear store owner in Oklahoma, City, has jockeyed Sunray through many ups & downs, including bankruptcy in 1931. He built it to one of the top U.S. oil companies, with assets of $136 million and profits of $15.6 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Bargain Counter | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...some 200 corporations reporting, only six were in the red. About 60% of the rest showed gains. The oil industry, which was able to increase production with little rise in costs, was well out in front. Typical: Sunray Oil Corp., with a profit of $4,126,025, was up 98% over the same quarter last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Better Than Ever? | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Carson City, Nev., Skelly got a temporary injunction preventing Getty from taking a vote of Mission stockholders on the merger. That was enough to block it through Dec. 23, which Getty and Sunray had agreed would be the deadline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Boiling Oil | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...before it was announced, had helped send Mission Corp. stock up from the year's low of $28¾to a high of $56⅜|. Pacific Western had gone from $21¾ to $59¾. Both stocks broke sharply when Skelly won his injunction. Last week Getty and Sunray decided to call the whole deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Boiling Oil | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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