antedating?: "top dollar" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Sam Clements]

Yep.  It's 1946.

But, there are 1941 cites, mainly from Reno, NV, using "top dollar paid."

Sam Clements
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From: "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET>
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Subject: Re: antedating?: "top dollar" (UNCLASSIFIED)


> >[classified ad], _Marion [Ohio] Star_, 3/27/1916, p. 17 col 2.
>>"$ Top Dollar Paid $ Timber Wanted Good oak timber wanted at all times."
>
> But it's 1946 rather than 1916, right?
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> -- Doug Wilson
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