Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Sydney Greenstreet and Valentina Cortesa, the mainstays of the supporting cast, do an excellent job of keeping up the oriental atmosphere. Greenstreet, a stock character in exotic movies, plays a saloon-keeper who trades with both Japs and Allies, while Cortesa is a halfbreed singer who does just about the same thing, but what they do or say is unimportant; it's the remarkable far-eastern aura they create that counts...
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...
...producing oil and gas wells, and big leases in the promising new oil pools-Texas' Scurry County and Canada's Alberta fields. Floyd Odium himself thought enough of Sunray's potentialities to keep an option (until Dec. i) to buy 750,000 shares of its common stock at 12, about where it was last week...
Odium's big deal put Atlas Corp.'s assets at 75% cash-the first time the company has been that liquid since September 1929, when Odium foresaw the crash and got out of the stock market. Last week, Odium wasn't worrying about another crash. He was relaxing in his heated swimming pool in Indio, Calif., treading water several times a day to help his rheumatoid arthritis and biding his time for another "special situation...
...just yet, even though American had doubled its earned surplus to $10.3 million. Under the debenture agreement by which American financed its postwar fleet of planes, the company may not pay dividends until its surplus tops $10.6 million. Nevertheless, the news was cheerful enough to send American's stock up 1⅜points to 11⅝; if, the highest since...