Word: utilitarian
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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...
...Cord sold out his Cord Corp. holdings. About a quarter of them went to his broad-shouldered, boom-voiced No. 1 man, Lucius Bass Manning, already a large stockholder. The rest went to a syndicate headed by British Bankers J. Henry Schroder & Co., and to young, up-&-coming Public Utilitarian Victor Emanuel's investment house, Emanuel & Co. (in which he is now only a "limited partner...
...league utilitarian, heard from last week, is George Tidd, who runs the $523,000,000 American Gas and Electric system, in nine States from the Tennessee Valley to Lake Michigan. American Gas was put together in 1907 by Harrison Williams of North American Co., and Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, now retired, formerly head of Electric Bond & Share, which owns 19% of American Gas common. Tidd is an operating man who once indicated to a Washington investigation that a great deal of the finance in his own power system was over his head. Nevertheless, in 1933 he showed what he thought...
Last week, Lawyer-Utilitarian-Broadcaster-Cinemagnate-Publisher Aylesworth, like the magical Merlin himself, was gone again. He resigned his job on the World-Telegram, and, standing before Justice Francis Martin of the Supreme Court of New York, at 53 was admitted to the bar. His aim: to practice corporation law and specialize in litigation involving labor and taxation disputes...