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...dollars last fall sold it recently for 136,000 and has gone home to retire. The first 1946 Chrysler sedan to arrive in Shanghai was sold by an ethically intentioned American dealer for $3,000, a comfortable profit. He is now feeling like a sucker, because it was resold recently for the third time for a reported...
Jackie Coogan, onetime boy cinemactor, ex-glider trooper, set up as a secondhand dealer in planes, reported that he had already bought 35 surplus ships from the U.S. and resold them to private customers...
...professional bidder bought five $300 Army searchlights at auction for $31 apiece. Later, he resold them to a Government contractor (working for the Navy) for $205 each...
...soldier sold the pistol for $75. It was promptly resold for $125 to a sailor, who then sold it to a Navy officer for five quarts of whiskey...
...when 17-year-old Bruce Wier, a high-school senior (whose parents are in Oregon), raided a ration board, swiped enough stamps for several thousand gallons. He peddled them at Skateland, got $3 to $5 for a strip of 24 three-gallon stamps. Some boys bought job lots and resold them. Babyfaced, nonchalant Wier was finally apprehended and removed to the Federal Correctional Institution in Arapahoe County. Said he proudly: "I blew probably more than $1,000 on wine, women and song, like they say in stories...