[Milsurplus] War Assets Administration

[William Donzelli]

> BTW, i have a few pages of lists of equipment to be disposed of
> by some gov't organization, something like "War Assets Administration",
> and the first prices they were asking were, while less than what Sam paid,
> still crazy high. No ham or hobbyist would have paid those kind of prices,
> which were as high as new hamgear. Other countries were also tired and
> strapped after the war, so i don't imagine there was much of a market.
> These were prices around 1946 - 47. Prices seem to have been held this
> way for a while, then plummeted. Except for a while the gov't was buying
> back some pieces of surplus gear for the Korean War - BC-312, ART-13,
> ARC vhf gear?

Arthur Bernstein (of Compass) told me that after the war, he and other
big surplus dealers were basically given blank checks to buy all the
good high priced surplus. Cost was not object. And the customer?
Israel.

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Will