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Milo Minderbinder, fictional character, a black marketer in the satiric World War II novel Catch-22 by American writer Joseph Heller. Minderbinder, who equates profit with patriotism, exploits his connections as a U.S. Army lieutenant and mess officer to amass personal power and wealth. Corrupt and single-mindedly devoted to his profit margin, he eventually sells to all interested parties individual shares in an international syndicate over which he gains control. Eventually, he becomes the mayor of several Italian cities, the vice-shah of Oran, and the caliph of Baghdad. He even rents to the German air force fleets of planes that bomb ...(100 of 117 words)

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