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Odlum and Cochran were close friends of Amelia Earhart and her husband George P. Putnam and the Odlums were financial backers of Earhart's flying activities.
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Only later did Cochran meet Floyd Bostwick Odlum, founder of Atlas Corp. and CEO of RKO in Hollywood.
Fourteen years her senior, he was reputed to be one of the 10 richest men in the world, Odlum became enamored with Cochran and offered to help her establish a cosmetics business.
Cochran died on August 9, 1980 at her home in Indio, California that she shared with Floyd Odlum.
Odlum was first married ( in 1915 ) to Hortense McQuarrie, first woman department store head ; his second wife was aviatrix Jackie Cochran.
The first wings 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.
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Colm Mac Con Iomaire and Dave Odlum both were founding members of folk group Kíla.
In response Odlum, a socialist, founded the Saint Lucia Forum, a pressure group that discussed " the socialist and black cultural ideas which were beginning to challenge the Caribbean status quo ".
Despite the Labour Party still being in opposition in Saint Lucia, socialism and left-wing politics were on the rise in the Caribbean as a whole and, during his time out of Parliament, Odlum was the public face of socialism in the region.
After diplomatic relations were officially established, Odlum visited China between 5 and 12 September.
In 2004, on the anniversary of his death, a series of activities were organised in memory of Odlum.
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Odlum, whom she married in 1936 after his divorce, was an astute financier and savvy marketer who recognized the value of publicity for her business.
Years later, Odlum used his Hollywood connections to get Marilyn Monroe to endorse her line of lipstick.
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Former Union presidents have included the broadcaster, Sue Lawley, St Lucia's foreign minister and ambassador to the United Nations, George W. Odlum and Lembit Öpik
George William Odlum ( 24 June 1934 — 28 September 2003 ) was a Saint Lucian left-wing politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.
Odlum, known simply as " Brother George ", had a controversial legacy.
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The National Alliance was a political party in Saint Lucia led by George Odlum.
Before the elections, he had made a secret pact to hand over power to fellow representative George Odlum within the first six months in power, a deal he broke following pressure from US officials and other allies.
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& R. Odlum, Cleeve's, R & H Hall, Dockrell's, Arnott's, Goulding Chemicals, the Irish Times, the Irish Railways, and the Guinness brewery ( Ireland's largest employer ).
She managed it all the way to the final at the Odlum Brown Vancouver Open where she was beaten by Stephanie Dubois.
Her bad form continued, as she lost in the second round of the Odlum Brown Vancouver Open and qualifying rounds of both the Cincinnati Masters and the Rogers Cup.
The story was written by Roger Corman and the screenplay by Jean Howell and Jerome Odlum.
Floyd Bostwick Odlum ( March 30, 1892, Union City, Michigan – June 17, 1976, Indio, California ) was a wealthy lawyer and industrialist.
After struggling as a corporate attorney in Salt Lake City, Odlum received an offer to a law clerk at a New York firm, and in 1921 became Vice-President of his primary client, Electric Bond and Share Company.
In 1923, Odlum, a friend, and their wives pooled a total of $ 39, 600 and formed the United States Company to speculate in purchases of utilities and general securities.
In 1928, Odlum incorporated Atlas Utilities Company to take over the common stock of his other company.
During the summer of 1929, Odlum was one of the few industrial moguls to believe that the boom on Wall Street could not continue much longer, and he sold one half of Atlas's holdings, as well as nine million dollars in new securities to investors.
After Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated President of the United States, Odlum shifted gears, selling off utilities before stronger regulation set in, and switching to large scale financing.
By 1933, Odlum was one of the 10 wealthiest men in the United States.
Odlum sold RKO to Howard Hughes.
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Jackie Cochran, another pioneering aviator and one of Earhart's friends, made a postwar search of numerous files in Japan and was convinced the Japanese were not involved in Earhart's disappearance.
* Former NFL players Red Cochran and Jim Tolbert were born in Fairfield.
Since Morton and Cochran County were one of the last in the state to be broken out into farmland and settled, the motto for Morton became, " The Last Frontier ".
Among Cochran's marital innovations was ' spiritual wifery ', and " tradition assumes that ( Cochran ) received frequent consignments of spiritual consorts, and that such were invariably the most robust and attractive women in the community ".
Lott and his future Senate colleague, Thad Cochran ( also elected to Congress that year ), were only the second and third Republicans elected to Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction.
Cochran was also reelected in a rout ; he and Lott were the first Republicans to win a second term in Congress from the state since Reconstruction.
The group, whose style was based upon the sounds of Sun Records artists and other artists from the 1950s, were heavily influenced by Eddie Cochran, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent and Bill Haley & His Comets.
Among his appointments and successors in the Statistics department were Oscar Irwin, John Wishart, Frank Yates, William Cochran and John Nelder.
One of his fellow students was RAF Sgt Jack Morton, who told a humorous anecdote while he and his fellow student Rennie were in the same class: " At the end of our primary course we were posted to a Basic Flying School at Cochran Field, Macon, Georgia.
The class which completed the course at Cochran Field was now split up, half were posted to Napier Field, Dothan, Alabama, to train on single engine planes, and the remainder were posted to twin-engine schools.
Like Cochran, Napier Field was a large permanent Air Corps Base and most of us were quite content to stay on the camp when we had time off.
Two Royal Air Force airmen ( F / O Dennis H. Cochran, and F / L Anthony R. H. Hayter ) who were involved in The Great Escape, and murdered by the Gestapo after re-capture, were cremated at Natzweiler.
Filing for divorce, Cochran moved back to northwest Florida, settling in DeFuniak Springs, where her parents were then living.
In early 1941, Olds asked Cochran to find out how many women pilots there were in the United States, what their flying times were, their skills, their interest in flying for the country, and personal information about them.
Also in June 1941, Arnold suggested that Cochran take a group of qualified female pilots to see how the British were doing.
The singer Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent were involved in a car crash in Chippenham on 17 April 1960 on Rowden Hill.
Her parents were Robert Cochran, a Scots-Irish immigrant, and his wife, Sarah.
Only one provincial officer, Captain John Cochran, and five provincial soldiers were stationed at Fort William and Mary.
Several injuries but no deaths occurred in the engagement, and Cochran and his men were released after about an hour and a half of confinement.
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