This ironic situation is epitomized in the single appearance of German personnel in the novel, who act as pilots employed by the squadron's Mess Officer, Milo Minderbinder, to bomb the American encampment on Pianosa.

Milo Minderbinder ’ s maxim “ What ’ s good for M & M Enterprises is good for the country ” alludes to former president of General Motors Charles Erwin Wilson ’ s statement before the Senate “ What ’ s good for General Motors is good for the country .” The question of “ Who promoted Major Major ?” alludes to Joseph McCarthy ’ s questioning of the promotion of Major Peress, an army dentist who refused to sign loyalty oaths.

Fictional character Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder in the novel Catch-22 has been called " perhaps the best known of all fictional profiteers " in American literature.

First Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's most successful novel, Catch-22.

Milo Minderbinder is the mess officer at the U. S. Army Air Corps base who becomes obsessed with expanding mess operations and trading goods for the profits of the syndicate ( in which he and everyone else " has a share ").

Minderbinder, unlike most characters in Catch-22, who are only the subject of one chapter, is the subject of three chapters ( Chapter 22: " Milo the Mayor ", Chapter 24: " Milo " and Chapter 35: " Milo the Militant ").

Likewise, Heller created Minderbinder's famous saying " What's good for Milo Minderbinder, is good for the country " ( insert Syndicate or M & M Enterprises for Milo Minderbinder ) as a parody of Charles E. Wilson, who said " What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good for the country " during a hearing of a Senate subcommittee in 1952.

Milo Minderbinder has become the archetypal unabashed war profiteer in the American novel, better known than the first example of the species, the character Charles Holt in the 1863 novel The Days of Shoddy by Henry Morford, and the later characters Marcus Hubbard in the play Another Part of the Forest, Joe Keller in the Miller play All My Sons and Noah Rosewater in the Vonnegut novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.

Tallman flew the dramatic night shots of the Milo Minderbinder Air Force B-25 bombing its own base just over the heads of actors Jon Voight and Martin Sheen.

It takes place in New York City in the 1990s, and revisits some characters of the original, including Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder and Chaplain Tappman.

Other key members of the development team included Bill Trost, who created the history, lore and major characters of Norrath ( including Everquest protagonist Firiona Vie ), Geoffrey " GZ " Zatkin who implemented the spell system, and artist Milo D. Cooper, who did the original character modeling in the game.

In the 2010 film " Bounty Hunter ," Gerard Butler's character Milo Boyd tells Jennifer Aniston's character Nicole Houston of a " great pizza place on Yonkers.

Titus Annius Milo appears as a recurring character in John Maddox Roberts ' SPQR series of novels.

Milo also appears as a character in A Murder on the Appian Way, Last Seen in Massilia and A Mist of Prophecies, in the Roma Sub Rosa series of historical mystery novels by Steven Saylor.

Milo is a character in Colleen McCollough's Caesar ( novel ).

Most of his fictional stories feature the character of Alex Delaware, a child psychologist who consults for the police, assisted in his investigations by LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, who is what Kellerman describes as " gay, but so what?

A major plotline of the series was the search for and recovery of artifacts created by Milo Rambaldi, a Renaissance-era character with similarities to both Leonardo da Vinci and Nostradamus.

A new character of Dr. Milo is introduced played by actor Sal Mineo, who hoped his career would gain from the new project much as McDowall's career had from participating in the first film.

Milo Bloom is a fictional character in the American comic strip Bloom County.

* Brin Milo, a character in Dan Abnett's Warhammer 40, 000 novel series

* Milo, the main character in Norton Juster's children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth

* Milo James Thatch, the main character in the Disney animated films Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Atlantis: Milo's Return

* Scorpio Milo, a character from the Saint Seiya series of manga created by Masami Kurumada

* Milo Weener, a character in the BBC children's television programme Tweenies

Binkley is the first recurring child character after Milo to appear in the strip and largely replaced the dog Rabies as Milo's sounding board.

As director, Schnabel inserted himself into the film by adding the fictional stand-in character, Albert Milo ( Gary Oldman ), based on Schnabel.

The game puts the player in control of the main character as he and two friends ( Pyra and Milo ) explore 3-dimensionally rendered dungeon mazes.

Milo O ' Shea ( born 2 June 1926 ) is an Irish character actor.

He also voices the character of the adolescent fish Milo on the Disney Channels Fish Hooks.

Most of the strip's most memorable characters debuted later on, with Milo being the only key character to appear for the duration of the strip's run.

A. Bresval, Antoine Calbet, Beresford Egan, Foujita, Louis Icart, Joseph Kuhn-Régnier, George Lepap, Pierre Leroy, Pierre Lissac, Mariette Lydis, Milo Manara, Lucio Milandre, Génia Minache, Pascal Pia,

Among the foremost of the Chicago industrialists, lawyers, financiers, and merchants were John Villiers Farwell, Edmund Dick Taylor, Potter Palmer, George Pullman, Charles Gray, Marshall Field, Richard Teller Crane, Martin Ryerson, John Jacob Glessner, Jacob Bunn, John Whitfield Bunn, John Graves Shedd, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Edward Avery Shedd, Charles Banks Shedd, Leander McCormick, Stanley Field, Charles Deering, James Deering, Robert Law, Francis Peabody, Leonard Richardson, Milo Barnum Richardson, Joseph Edward Otis, Frank Hatch Jones, Arthur Jerome Eddy, Arthur J. Caton, Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, Ezra Butler McCagg, Julius Rosenwald, Morris Selz, Harry Selz, William McCormick Blair, William Douglas Richardson, Charles Farwell, James Monroe Stryker and John Stryker of the Bunn-Richardson-Stryker-Taylor family ( See: John Whitfield Bunn and Jacob Bunn ), Samuel Insull, Max Adler, Lucius Fisher, Lucius Teeter, John Peter Altgeld, Walter Gurnee, Philip Danforth Armour, Gustavus Franklin Swift, Michael Morris, Jacob Best, Jonathan Y. Scammon, and many others.

* Borgia, by Milo Manara ( artist ) & Alejandro Jodorowsky ( writer ), a comic in the form of serialized graphic novel, depicting the story of the Borgia family.

A barely veiled satirical interpretation of Castaneda's work, Viaggio a Tulun was published in 1989 as a graphic novel with artwork by Milo Manara and as Trip to Tulum in America in 1990.

" In Johann Wyss ' novel Swiss Family Robinson, the youngest son Franz is entrusted with a bull buffalo to raise, and from which gains comparison to Milo.

Milo Urban's 1927 work Živý bič ( The Living Whip ) and Jozef Cíger-Hronský's 1933 novel Jozef Mak both focused on the village, and the nature of change.

The novel initially follows an infant called Milo from his beginnings as an ordinary boy to his transformation into the Silver Child, an enormous entity of child-like proportions with wings and brightly shining skin-fated to act as the first line of defence against the Roar.

Since then, in less than two decades, the company has developed one of the most respected graphic novel / comic book catalogues in the world, featuring authors such as Moebius, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Enki Bilal, Milo Manara and Juan Gimenez, and books from multiple genres.

** Panini Comics extends its licensing deal with Marvel Comics into more territories and also announces an X-Men graphic novel aimed at the European market with script by Chris Claremont and art by Milo Manara.

The bulk of Catch-22 concerns Yossarian's relationships with the other officers in his squadron, such as the neurotic Hungry Joe, the war profiteer Milo, the idealistic Nately and selfish Doc Daneeka.

At one point, Captain Black attempts to pressure Milo into depriving Major Major of food based on fabricated charges by comparing the situation to Catch-22.