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...runways and revetments of the Stillwater, Okla. airfield were crowded with 475 surplus bombers and fighters which once cost the U.S. $117,000,000. In Oklahoma City this week, chunky, cigar-smoking Paul Mantz of Los Angeles bought this mighty air armada, which included 228 Liberators and 78 Flying Fortresses. The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Golden Junk? | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...veteran stunt flyer, Paul Mantz is no novice at making money on war-weary aircraft. His United Air Services, Ltd. already owns 22 flyable World War I planes, rents them to movie companies. He also runs a charter service out of Los Angeles from which he has taken in some $2,000,000 since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Golden Junk? | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...Mantz will save about 75 of his planes to rent to movie companies at $100 to $300 a day, scrap the rest. He estimates that the aluminum alone will bring in $160,000; manufacturers of novelty jewelry will buy the plexiglass for 10? a pound, etc. Mantz hopes to make $1,350,000 on his junk deal. But the Reconstruction Finance Corp. thought that he was a bit optimistic. Its estimate of the scrap value of Mantz's planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Golden Junk? | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...took army aviation tests and found eyesight deficient in one minor point. His oculist, who had helped prepare army tests, advised special exercises for a year. Doggedly Hewitt exercised, satisfactorily passed, trained at March Field where about three-fifths of each crop is "washed out." He worked with Paul Mantz at United Airport, joyously signed three-year contract with China National Aviation Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1936 | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...Botany 11, Emerson D Chemistry A: Abbot-Kiggen (inclusive), New Lecture Hall LaFarge-Thistle (inclusive), Zoological Lecture Room Titiev-Zucrow (inclusive), Pierce 202 Chemistry 3: Abrams-Dunn, Sever 29 Eastman-Martin, Sever 35 Mirsky-Yens, Sever 36 Economics 1a: Alexander-Fisher, Pierce 110 Flynn-R. Kingsbury, Pierce 302 Knight-Mantz, Pierce 307 Marsh-Reynolds, Sever 5 Richardson-Siller, Sever 19 Silverman-Thomas, Sever 20 Thurston-Zeo, Sever 26 Economics 14, Robinson Education 1, Robinson A English 3a, Sever 6 English 9, Emerson F English 69, Holden Fine Arts 1c: Allen-Evans, Emerson A Faulkner-Williams, Emerson J French 8: Adams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schedule of Mid-year Examinations | 2/7/1920 | See Source »

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