Description: Specimen Stock printed by American Bank Note Company. Blue or Brown Available.Please specify color. TheAtlas Corporationis an Americaninvestment firmthat was formed in 1928. Atlas invested in and managed a number of major US companies during the 20th century and has number of investments in natural resources. Atlas corporation was formed in 1928, in a merger of the United Corporation, an investment firm started in 1923 with $40,000, with Atlas Utilities and Investors Ltd. The corporation specialized incapital formationand management. In 1929, Atlas was a $12,550,000investment trust.The company was able to shrewdly weather theWall Street Crash of 1929, and continue to grow through the 1930s and 1940s. The corporation was founded byFloyd Odlumand his brother-in-law Boyd Hatch. With Floyd Odlum as president and Boyd Hatch as vice-president, Atlas invested, managed or controlled numerous industries, includingGreyhound Lines,Bonwit Teller(acquired 1934) andFranklin Simon & Co.(acquired 1936) ladies' apparel stores,Madison Square Garden, and various mines, utility companies, aviation related businesses, and banks.After Atlas Corporation acquired the Bonwit Teller ladies' apparel stores, Floyd Odlum convinced his wife,Hortense Odlum, to become involved in the store's operations. She became the first female president of a major department store chain when she became president of Bonwit Teller in 1934.In 1948,Howard Hughesacquired controlling interest inRKO Picturesfrom Atlas.TheAtlas Missile programwas named after the Atlas Corporation,the contractor through its Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, (laterConvair) subsidiary, which Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
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Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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