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Originally Posted by sammyg2
Back when we bought Alaska, lots of people complained and said it was a really dumb idea and waste of money.
They even called it Seward's folly.
We paid $7.2 mil fer it.
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Yeah, but in today's dollars, that $7.2 mil is like a 100 million. (0.1 Billion)
So, clearly we got ripped off. 