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...test-pilot husband rose heavily from the table, commented: "I can't say I think much of your new brand of breakfast cereal." Bushed. In Los Angeles, Edward Jones tossed $400 into a clump of bushes just before holdup men grabbed the $20 in his wallet; after the robbers had gone, he hustled over to the shrubbery, found his $400 had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 19, 1944 | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

Much Obliged. In Chicago, Rosemary Karier found a wallet containing $1.438, returned it to the owner, got a reward of 25 cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 5, 1944 | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

When World War II caught the U.S. desperately short of magnesium, a No. 1 component of incendiaries and planes, the Federal Government spilled out $515,000,000 to expand the infant industry. Last week, the Senate's wallet-watching Truman Committee ended a two-year probe of: 1) whether the U.S. got its money's worth; 2) what will happen to the new industry at war's end. Its report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAGNESIUM: Dow Up, Jones Down | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

Reward Later. On a Boston-to-Philadelphia train, Bostonian Charles J. O'Malley found a wallet containing $1,000, returned it to its owner, was promised free service by a grateful undertaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

Assist. In Manhattan, a confused hold up man thought he handed back Daniel Feldman's emptied wallet, but actually - as he soon learned from the police - passed over his own identification papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

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