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"ref": "1920, The Argonaut, volume 87, Argonaut Publishing Company, page 26",
"text": "The world's playground became a camp, and now is a workshop, and our billionaires, millionaires, and hundred-thousand-dollaraires will have to put up with Florida, California, our sight-seeing trips, and the Canadian resorts.",
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"ref": "1996 August 13, Ana Diaz, “Re: A teeny tiny survey”, in alt.cuddle (Usenet), message-ID <3210A8C6.283C@worldnet.att.net>",
"text": "One is the Publishers Clearing House, which I visit every day, because you never know! I just may be the next 10 million-dollar-aire!",
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"ref": "2000 April 14, rainkid, “CELERON / COPPERMINE Fan/Heatsink”, in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking (Usenet), message-ID <jczJ4.90068$17.1965143@news4.giganews.com>",
"text": "If not, what fan/heatsink do you all suggest for the 600e (good price to performance ratio important, I aint a hundred-dollar-aire you know)",
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"ref": "2001 January 21, Steve Hermanos, Strange Jazz, United States: iUniverse, page 108",
"text": "“So,” I clutched my army jacket at my neck, “how does it feel to be a hundred-thousand-dollaraire?”",
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"ref": "2006 May 16, robcraine, “Re: [I] Very Large Numbers”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet), message-ID <1147775358.434790.213100@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>",
"text": "And no-one ever refers to a billion pounds as a \"billipound\", or Bill Gates as a \"billion-dollar-aire\". Completely different notation systems.",
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"ref": "2009 January 6, Robert Doyen, Meg Schneider, “Chapter 12: Winning Wealth”, in Making Millions For Dummies, Indianapolis, Indiana, Canada: Wiley, Part III: Paths Paved with Gold, page 162",
"text": "If everybody around you keeps saying, “Congratulations, you’re a millionaire!”, you can be forgiven for thinking, “Hey, yeah, I’m a millionaire!” After all, that has a much nicer ring than “Hey, I’m a 47,000-dollar-aire!”",
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"ref": "2011 August 2, Bill McKenna, “Chapter 17: Uncaused Joy”, in The Only Lesson, United States: Balboa Press, page 89",
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"ref": "2018 February 22, Allan Cole, chapter 26, in S.O.S.: A Novel of World War 2, Wildside Press, page 195",
"text": "I vote we keep going. We catch seven or eight more of these suckers and we’ll be hundred dollar-aires.",
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"ref": "1906, William Harrison De Puy, The Methodist Year-book, Philips & Hunt",
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"ref": "1922, Los Angeles Single Tax League, Tax Relief Association of California, Tax Facts, page 46",
"text": "THE MILLIONAIRE / […] / THE DOLLARAIRE / First Workingman: I have two thousand dollars that I wish I could invest where I wouldn't have to pay taxes on it.",
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"ref": "2004 May 9, Boob, “Re: Grudgematch 2004!”, in alt.surfing (Usenet), message-ID <109sb8t22et3f72@corp.supernews.com>",
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},
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"ref": "2000 April 14, rainkid, “CELERON / COPPERMINE Fan/Heatsink”, in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking (Usenet), message-ID <jczJ4.90068$17.1965143@news4.giganews.com>",
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},
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"ref": "2001 January 21, Steve Hermanos, Strange Jazz, United States: iUniverse, page 108",
"text": "“So,” I clutched my army jacket at my neck, “how does it feel to be a hundred-thousand-dollaraire?”",
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},
{
"ref": "2006 May 16, robcraine, “Re: [I] Very Large Numbers”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet), message-ID <1147775358.434790.213100@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>",
"text": "And no-one ever refers to a billion pounds as a \"billipound\", or Bill Gates as a \"billion-dollar-aire\". Completely different notation systems.",
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},
{
"ref": "2009 January 6, Robert Doyen, Meg Schneider, “Chapter 12: Winning Wealth”, in Making Millions For Dummies, Indianapolis, Indiana, Canada: Wiley, Part III: Paths Paved with Gold, page 162",
"text": "If everybody around you keeps saying, “Congratulations, you’re a millionaire!”, you can be forgiven for thinking, “Hey, yeah, I’m a millionaire!” After all, that has a much nicer ring than “Hey, I’m a 47,000-dollar-aire!”",
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},
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"ref": "2018 February 22, Allan Cole, chapter 26, in S.O.S.: A Novel of World War 2, Wildside Press, page 195",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1922, Los Angeles Single Tax League, Tax Relief Association of California, Tax Facts, page 46",
"text": "THE MILLIONAIRE / […] / THE DOLLARAIRE / First Workingman: I have two thousand dollars that I wish I could invest where I wouldn't have to pay taxes on it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004 May 9, Boob, “Re: Grudgematch 2004!”, in alt.surfing (Usenet), message-ID <109sb8t22et3f72@corp.supernews.com>",
"text": "Now as to the money. While I am a multi-thousandaire, I think you might just be a hundredaire or even a dollaraire. So that is an issue.",
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