Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
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. Juni 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.
26. Nov. 2019 · Floyd Odlum went from rags to riches in one of the most interesting and forgotten stories from the Great Depression. Here’s a description of him from James Grant: “We can have no finer role model. First and foremost, he was a value investor — a member of that eccentric tribe that believes it’s better to underpay than to overpay.”
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.
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
18. Juni 1976 · Floyd B. Odium, the selfmade millionaire who founded the Atlas Corporation, made a fortune in the Depression and left an imprint on virtually every facet of American capitalism, died yesterday...
Floyd Odlum, the son of a Methodist minister, was born in 1892 in Union City, Michigan. He began working to support himself at a young age delivering milk and working on a farm.
