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Floyd Odlum
Floyd Odlum (Executive. Born, Union City, MI, Mar. 30, 1892; died, Indio, CA, June 17, 1976.) A law graduate of the University of Colorado, Floyd Bostwick Odlum came to New York in 1917 to join the firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, specializing in utilities work. In 1923, Odlum and his first wife with a […]
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart (Air racing. Born, Atchison, KS, July 24, 1898; died, near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean, probably July 2, 1937.) Originally coming to public attention as one of the women flyers in the Bendix Aviation air races (the so-called “powder puff derbies”), Amelia Earhart was a contemporary and competitor of, among others, Pancho […]
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