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I knew an older dentist, who offered to sell his practice to a younger dentist just starting out. (Often, this can be a good way for a retiring dentist to cash out on the customers he has built up over the years, and for a younger dentist to quickly ramp up to a good base of regular customers.)Except in this case, the younger dentist didn’t think to include a non-compete agreement in the deal, because it was presumed that the old dentist was retiring. So young dentist borrows money to buy the practice, which includes some equipment, but is mostly the value of the customer base. And then the new dentist sets up across the street, and most of the old customers just keep going to the old dentist.Young dentist goes under. And it turns out that he has done this several times to unsuspecting young dentists.

Contrary to widespread belief in the UK (and seemingly in the US) that the “Yanks had Britain over a barrel” debt-wise (to paraphrase a totally off the mark BBC documentary, the truth is far less satisfying if the goal is to condemn America for a ruthless “business is business” attitude toward our closest ally.First, on food, equipment, and other war materials, called Lend-Lease; the US gave a significant percentage of lend-lease to Britain to fight the Nazis beginning well before Pearl Harbor. Moreover, the equipment was given as a loan, with no expectation of repayment once British gold reserves were low. Initially given obsolete destroyers in exchange for long term leases at UK Naval bases, the quid pro quo was soon dispensed with and Britain was given the materials free of charge. A total of $50.1 billion, or 12 percent of total US expenditure in WWII.Next on actual war time loans; the British enjoyed the backing of the US treasury once their gold back sterling was precariously low. They would’ve starved without it.These wartime loans were forgiven. 100 percent. A delegation led by John Maynard Keynes came to the US in July 1945 and was successful in getting the existing loans forgiven, as well as securing new loans for the post-war needs of the UK from both the US and Canada, called the Anglo-American Loan Agreement. The “new world coming to the aid of the old,” to borrow Churchill’s words.These new loans were given to the UK at a very low interest rate (2 percent) and were engineered with a stopgap measure that gave the British Treasury the choice of suspending repayments if their economic situation called for it (which they did so a few times until the loans were fully repaid (2006). $83.25B was repaid to the US and $22.7B to Canada.Separate from this was the Marshall Plan, of which the UK was the largest recipient (26 percent of the total of $193 billion in 2017 dollars). This money was gifted to Great Britain.The US was the only major combatant to have been left unscathed by the War. We needed customers to buy our goods and as the might of the US industrial base ready to provide Europe with consumer goods, this was certainly in our interest.But to say we treated the British with anything less than charity, amity, and compassion is totally false.

There are companies that specialize in having military equipment available for vintage military movies. If the equipment is current then the movie has made an agreement with the certain branches of the service. That agreement generally means that the movie must show the military or that particular branch of service in a positive light. There is an office at the Pentagon and at each military installation that coordinates these events.