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...

Odlum is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Doris Odlum (1890–1985), British psychiatrist Floyd Odlum (1892–1976), American lawyer and...

painter and illustrator Floyd Odlum (1892–1976), American lawyer and businessman Floyd B. Olson (1891–1936), Governor of Minnesota Floyd Patterson (1935–2006)...

and 1940s. The corporation was founded by Floyd Odlum and his brother-in-law Boyd Hatch. With Floyd Odlum as president and Boyd Hatch as vice-president...

Teller Department Store in New York City and the first wife of financier Floyd Odlum. Hortense McQuarrie was born on July 17, 1892 in St. George, Utah to...

into the operation. By the mid-1940s, RKO was controlled by investor Floyd Odlum. RKO has long been renowned for its cycle of musicals starring Fred Astaire...

in early 1954 and soon attracted heavy investments by industrialist Floyd Odlum, one of the wealthiest men in America. Inspired thereby, brother Elliott...

The company, in need of capital, partnered with noted financier Floyd Odlum. Odlum, who had cashed in his stock holdings just prior to the stock market...

were privately and hastily designed and paid for out of the pockets of Floyd Odlum and his wife, Jacqueline Cochran, who in 1942 became the head of WASP...

campaign advertisements. Checkers speech Jacqueline Cochran's husband, Floyd Odlum, was a director of the Disney corporation. Christiansen 2018 (a), p. 37...

interest purchased by Floyd Odlum, control split between RCA, Odlum, and Rockefeller brothers; controlling interest purchased by Odlum in 1942; controlling...

suicide in the cloakroom of the hotel. In 1949, the hotel was sold to Floyd Odlum and Boyd Hatch's Atlas Corporation. When the New York City Landmarks...

2013 ISBN 978-1-59240-749-1 Barnett, Vincent L. "Cutting Koerners: Floyd Odlum, the Atlas Corporation and the Dismissal of Orson Welles from RKO". Film...

Courage was her third. Her second marriage was to Bruce Odlum (son of financier Floyd Odlum) in 1944. That union produced two sons, Christopher (1947)...

attention of noted financier Floyd Odlum who made a significant investment into the company. Bonwit agreed to let Odlum's wife Hortense serve as a consultant...

transformed. The fallout from the inquiry was a factor in the decision by Floyd Odlum, the primary owner of RKO Pictures, to leave the industry. As a result...

headed to New York, where he spent much of his time associating with Floyd Odlum of Atlas Corporation, an investment company that served as the prototype...

Polacco, children's writer Josh McDowell, Christian evangelist and writer Floyd Odlum, businessman, and husband of Jacqueline Cochran, aviator Orville Hubbard...

half of the money. Part of the finance came from Peter Rathvorn and Floyd Odlum, who used to run RKO. The first of the two films, The Great Rupert, about...

Retrieved November 3, 2022. Barnett, Vincent L. "Cutting Koerners: Floyd Odlum, the Atlas Corporation and the Dismissal of Orson Welles from RKO". Film...

firm Kelso & Company, inventor of the Employee Stock Ownership Plan Floyd Odlum (LL.B. 1914), founder of Atlas Corporation, owner of RKO Anne Gorsuch...

struggling major Hollywood studio, by acquiring the 929,000 shares owned by Floyd Odlum's Atlas Corporation, for $8,825,000 ($107,165,160 in 2023). Within weeks...

MADIDDA, an early digital computer. Floyd George Steele grew up in Colorado. He was named after his uncle, Floyd Odlum, a businessman known for coming out...

Edwards as Flyer Flight for Freedom was produced by RKO, whose CEO, Floyd Odlum, was married to Jacqueline Cochran, one of Earhart's close friends and...

was associated with aviation pioneer (and friend of Amelia Earhart) Floyd Odlum. Cowdin served as chairman of the Committee on Government Finance of...

for the film Directed by Edward Sampson John Ireland Screenplay by Jerome Odlum Jean Howell Story by Roger Corman Produced by Roger Corman Starring John...

rest of his life in the United States. In 1955, he was working for Floyd Odlum's Atlas Corporation. That January, he attended a Motor Boat Show, buying...

became Secretary of the Interior. After that McKay asked industrialist Floyd B. Odlum (former president of Atlas Corp. and husband of Jacqueline Cochran)...

successful in doing so until after her death. Later Cochran met Floyd Bostwick Odlum, founder of Atlas Corp and CEO of RKO in Hollywood. Fourteen years...

missile known as the Atlas. Its development was begun in the era when Floyd Odlum's Atlas Corp. was the controlling stockholder in Convair." Before the...