Word: employee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ In Dedham, Mass., eight relatives and an ex-employe of the late millionaire attorney, Woodbury Rand, prepared to contest his will. They were indignant at discovering that he had canceled $20,000 in bequests because of their "contemptuous attitude" towards his male tiger cat, Buster (TIME, Aug. 21). Rand...
At shrapnel-scarred 2 rue des Italiens, United Pressmen Henry T. Gorrell, Richard D. McMillan and Ernie Pyle found the Germans had stolen the mahogany desks. But a U.P. employe had hidden the typewriters in his home.
Tracked. In Washington, the Treasury Department told how it caught up with David Fixman, a former railroad employe who obtained $843,000 worth of orders for nonexistent nylon hose; he was turned in by a prospective woman buyer who had no use for railroad men.
Boom. In Whiting, Ind., Mrs. Elizabeth Koby, a $42-a-week Standard Oil employe, received her two-week pay envelope, found she had been overpaid by $99,999,910.
Who They Were. Some of the letter writers: a Buffalo truck driver who had been in the New York National Guard for nine years; a Dartmouth graduate of 21; a 30-year-old Iowa farmer who had been frail and sickly all his life and who had never been away...