Word: wunderlich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest buyer was a 43-year-old contractor named Martin Wunderlich, of Jefferson City, Mo. In the largest single surplus sale to an individual, he acquired (for $2,780,000) a whole plainful of Flying Fortresses and other big planes (see cut), 5,540 in all. Like the other buyers he must scrap them...
Unlike the other bidders, Wunderlich got a surprise dividend: 2,300,000 gallons of 100-octane aviation gasoline, worth some $700,000. The gasoline, left in plane tanks, had been overlooked by WAA. Despite some WAA grumbling that it wasn't included, Wunderlich said he intended to keep...