Tham khảo tài liệu 'tiếng anh giao tiếp - new headway tập 2 part 3', ngoại ngữ, anh văn giao tiếp phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | . . . . ĨỂSỄ TTify inn I spend It and It. Elizabeth Wilson reports on one of-each The old man was just one of many people that Milton Petrie helped with his money. Whenever he read about personal disasters in his newspaper Petrie sent generous cheques especially to the families of policemen or firemen injured at work. He also sent cheques to a mother who lost five children in a fire and a beautiful model whose face was cut in a knife attack. It cost him millions of dollars but he still had millions left. He said that he was lucky in business and he wanted to help those less fortunate than himself. The nice thing is the harder I work the more money. I make arid the more people I can heip. Milton Petrie died in 1994 when he was 92. His will was 120 pages long because he left 150 million to 383 people. His widow Carroll his fourth and last wife said his generosity was a result of the poverty of his early years. His family were poor but kind-hearted. His father was a Russian immigrant who became a policeman but he never arrested anyone he was too kind. He couldn t even give a parking ticket. Hetty Green ỈŨ The Richest Meanest Woman in the World H enrietta. Hetty Green was a vefy ppUhoniy child. She .was born in Massachusetts . USA in Hgt iherywa a Ị millionaire businessman. . Her mother was often ill arid so from the age of two her father .took her with h ini to work and taught her about stocks and shares. At the age of six she started reading the daily financial newspapers and she opened her own bank account. . Her father died when she was 21 and she inherited million sill went to New York and invested on Wall Street. Hetty saved every penny eating in the cheapest restaurants for 15. cents. She became one of the richest and most hated women in the world. She was . called The Witch of Wall Street . At 33 she xiiarei ed Edward .Green . a mqlti- millionaire and had. two children Ned . and Svlvia Hetty s meanness was legendary. She always argued about price
