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"Catch 22" had satirical take on corruption and graft with "Milo Minderbinder M&M Enterprise" with his never ending schemes and trade relations from USAAF airbase in Italy, but in reality how bad corruption, graft, kickbacks, subpar quality, overcharging and other forms of profiting from war at the cost of US really was and what government and military command was fighting with illegal actions on their supply, production and handling contracts?

With all that sea of money being pumped into war, bases full of food, medical supplies, weapons and fuel in war torn countries and millions of men of all stripes (and some with less than stellar stance on what "Government Property" really means) and greedy companies at home front seems like a perfect recipe for "Strategic Transfer of Equipment to Alternative Location" (STEAL in short) happening all the time.

Texas used to be close to the "basket case" of economy. Machine politics, conservative society, high social stratification and agrarian economy which struck oil in 1910/1920s. It wasn't even that much large economy overall compared to rest of the US states prior to 1930s/1940s, especially in industry sector (excluding oil and agriculture) similar to rest of the US South (which Texas was considered part of it).

But something quite remarkable happened compared to many other places which found oil. Texas become simply rich with advanced economy and quite a industrial muscle breaking off from a lot of economic ills associated with oil production.

So, how did Texas which had a chance to be yet another example of "Find Oil - become too dependent on it and fail to use oil revenue to break off dependence on oil" reinvent itself into its current economic position as second largest US economy with massive non-oil related economy sector?