Floyd B. Odlum

Floyd B. Odlum is a wealthy lawyer and industrialist and husband of Jackie Cochran. He was one of the 10 wealthiest men in the U.S. when he married Cochran in 1932. He owned Atlas Corporation, RKO Studios, Convair, Northeast Airlines, Bonwit Taylor, and other businesses. He and Cochran were close friends of Amelia Earhart and her husband George Putnam Palmer and the Odlums were financial backers of Earhart's flying activities. Odlum and cochran developed the Cochran-Odlum (C-O) Ranch in Indio, California where they lived after the fifties.