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by nuclearnice1 1662 days ago
Hardly new.

> But your father doesn't want to invest, say, ten thousand dollars in it, though I can almost guarantee that he'll get five times that sum back.

Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon 1913

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1361/1361-h/1361-h.htm