David Rosenthal: belief

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…The craziest thing, this price that he bought it for, $40,000, was so low that Allan Lockheed actually considered bidding to buy his company back when they had it on the auction block. His considered bid was $50,000, but he thought that is so low that it might be insulting. There's no way they'd ever sell it, so he didn't actually bid. The winning bid was $10,000 less. It's so amazing when everything you've known of Lockheed today got bought out of bankruptcy for $40,000. It's crazy. Under Robert Gross and his brother Courtlandt who gets involved, they really are the ones who turned Lockheed into the great company it became. Before World War II during the 30s, Lockheed builds the famous Electra airplane, which is absolutely iconic. This is the plane that Amelia Earhart disappears in. Perhaps, even more timelessly, this is the plane at the very, very famous scene at the end of the movie Casablanca went and Rick puts Ilsa on the plane with Victor to escape the Nazis and says, here's looking at you kid. That plane is an Electra, I believe an Electra junior. Listeners, you know this plane. It's one of those romantic early aircrafts that were always perched up at an angle, where if you saw it standing still on a runway, it looked like it could just take off at any moment.…

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