Many know that famous children's writer Roald Dahl worked as a spy for the British Security Coordination (BSC) during WWII. One of his early short stories was a fictionalized account of his time as a pilot in the RAF. For this story, he was paid $1000 (~$18.9k today) minus a 10% commission for his agent, so $900 (~$17k today).
Dahl was also a card enthusiast who promptly lost this $900 to a Senator from Missouri who would, in time, come to be a pretty major national figure: Harry Truman.
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