“Give me 10,000 bucks and a big car and I'm your man. Casey gave him both.”

Casey Irving · The Knowledge Project · K.C. Irving: Competing with Giants

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offered Harrison McCain $10,000 and a big car to join Irving Oil as a salesman

$10,000

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