Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Our hero gave his name and asked Mr. Lenine to please not confuse the last part of his name with the National City Bank and not to confuse the first part of his name with the cherry tree.
"If you don't mind," said our hero, "I should like to have a great deal of various things."
"How would a couple of million of reindeer do?" said Mr. Lenine.
"You can have a billion reindeer just as easily as a couple of million," said Mr. Lenine, "and we'll throw in all the ice and Eskimos that go with the reindeer."
Our hero thought that 400,000 square miles would do nicely. Quicker than thought he also obtained from Mr. Lenine ten billion tons of coal, five billion tons of platinum, eight billion tons of furs--the nice woolly kind, twenty billion tons of petroleum, et cetera, et cetera.