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Floyd Bostwick Odlum (March 30, 1892 – June 17, 1976) was an American lawyer and industrialist. He has been described as "possibly the only man in the United States who made a great fortune out of the Depression".
18 de jun. de 1976 · Floyd Bostwick Odium, a financier who became a selfmade millionaire in the Depression, died yesterday at his desert home in Indio, Calif. He was 84 years old.
Floyd Odlum (1892-1976) was the initial creator and long-term controlling force behind the Atlas Corporation, a large American investment company that Welles clearly blamed for the abrupt ending that was forced on the filming of It’s All True, and hence his uncere-monious exit from RKO.
13 de sept. de 2023 · Floyd Odlum was an lawyer turned industrialist who seized an opportunity in the 1929 crash to become one of the richest people in America.
Since 2006, I have been at work on a biography of Floyd B. Odlum (1892-1976), the founder and CEO of the Atlas Corporation. I am attaching a document that combines an Author's Note, the Introduction to the book, and a 21-page, chapter-by-chapter summary of the contents.
Floyd Bostwick Odlum was born on March 30, 1892 in Union City, Michigan. His father, a Methodist minister later moved the family to Colorado. Odlum attended the University of Colorado where he received a law degree in 1914. He first took a job as an attorney for Utah Power and Light in Salt Lake
28 de ene. de 1973 · In 1953 she became the first woman to break the sound barrier in a jet airplane. Miss Cochran, now in her mid‐60's, was married to Mr. Odium in 1936, after the disolution in 1934 of his first ...
