Word: choicest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Credulous laymen gasped when Dexter Fellowes was quoted as having said: "I snapped up 67 of the choicest Alps in the country, scattered from the coast range to the White Mountains. ... I started in California and intended to sneak all the best peaks before the trade got wind of my intentions, but before I had cleaned up the coast range the news was out. In the Sierra Nevadas the prices jumped from $50 a peak to $1,000 and I had to play one mountain against another to get them for anything like a reasonable figure...