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...Nashville, Tenn., and part ownership of the ACF-Brill Motors Co. They will be incorporated in a new company, the Nashville Corp. By the deal, Convair's present parent, Victor Emanuel's Avco Manufacturing Corp., will get the controlling interest in the new company. Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., Convair's second biggest stockholder, will take control of the aviation properties...
...prizewinning orator at Cornell. He raised apples for a while in Oregon but gave that up for Wall Street, where he became a banker, a promoter and a tycoon. In 1920 he moved in on Lee Tire & Rubber Co. In 1933, with Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium, he acquired control of Madison Square Garden. He helped pull Paramount Pictures out of a $100 million hole, along the way picked up Brentano's book stores...
...foot of 52nd Street, where the Dead End Kids of Sidney Kingsley's play once hung out, is the palatial River House (duplexes and triplexes at $4,500 to $12,000). Among the well-heeled tenants: Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium and his wife, Jacqueline Cochran; newswriter and lecturer Quentin Reynolds. On nearby Sutton Place lives Heiress Anne Morgan...
With capital furnished by Hoving and his associates, the newly formed Hoving Corp. bought 22% of Bonwit's outstanding stock from Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. Hoving also got an option on an additional 74%. Before long he expects to take over control of Bonwit. Then he plans to open branches under the Bonwit name in other U.S. cities...
...presence of two of Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. directors on the board of the Frazer-Kaiser Corp. started rumors that Atlas Corp., with its $13,000,000 in cash, was behind the new company. Odium denied it. Authorized capital will be 5,000,000 shares at $1 par. Half the stock will be taken by Graham-Paige for its stockholders. But all the rosy talk was enough to make Graham-Paige stock the most active stock on the New York Exchange last week, send it hippity-hopping...