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"text": "The damage that he did to his car was to the tune of two grand."
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"ref": "1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston",
"text": "It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand.",
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