defaulted in its repayment of the loan.
The debtor is a corporation having performed heating and air conditioning construction contracts as a contractor or subcontractor for real property owners or contractors. It engaged subcontractors, materialmen and suppliers ("subcontractors") during the course of its performance. The subcontractors discharged their obligations to the debtor prior to receiving payment. They were to be paid upon the debtor's receipt of proceeds earned from the primary construction contract. Unfortunately, a number of these subcontractors remain unpaid. The trustee does not contest that these obligations arose subsequent to the Bank's perfection of its security interest in the debtor's property.
The debtor filed a voluntary petition pursuant to Chapter 7 on August 24, 1984. An interim trustee was appointed on August *669 29, 1984. Approximately three monthslocations on interstate highways.  Each store's resident manager was paid a weekly salary plus potential bonuses.  If the manager was married, Stuckey's hired the spouse as an hourly employee at just above the minimum wage.  Gladys and Sidney Murray are former employees at Stuckey's stores in Randall and Little Sioux, Iowa.  On May 30, 1985, the Murrays commenced this action, alleging that Stuckey's had failed to compensate managers and spouses for overtime as required by the FLSA.  Other managers and hourly employees filed written consents and joined the suit.  See 29 U.S.C. Sec. 216(b).  Because of the applicable statute of limitations, the case focuses on the three years immediately preceding May 30, 1985, a period in which Stuckey's was unsuccessfully attempting