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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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 had cost him less than $1,000,000. And after buying into RKO in 1935, Odium kept the company under his wing until he sold to Howard Hughes in 1948 at a profit...

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

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