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  • The latest addition to Sonic's 3,700 franchises, now making their way north from their roots in the South, was doing a land-office business Tuesday, scrambling to introduce newcomers to its car-centric cuisine.

    Lance Mannion: 2010

  • The latest addition to Sonic's 3,700 franchises, now making their way north from their roots in the South, was doing a land-office business Tuesday, scrambling to introduce newcomers to its car-centric cuisine.

    Ok, I know where Im not going for lunch today 2010

  • It turned out that they had been doing land-office business, hauling drugs along with their other cargo.

    Cruel Intent J.A. Jance 2008

  • Local tree services, in the wake of the December ice storm, are doing land-office business these days.

    dustbury.com » Direct marketing with heft 2008

  • In fact, just about everyone is doing land-office business these days, with the exception of actual land offices.

    dustbury.com » Direct marketing with heft 2008

  • At the corner of Last Chance Gulch and Sixth Street in Helena, Mont., brokers for D.A. Davidson do a land-office business.

    West Of Wall Street 2008

  • Man did not make the earth, and, though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity any part of it; neither did the Creator of the earth open a land-office, from whence the first title-deeds should issue.

    "George Bush called this the ownership society, but what he really meant was 'you're-on-your-own' society." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Pollard, one “for 100 dollars in land-office money,” the other for $100.37, “payable in leather to be delivered four miles from Bloomington,” was to “receive the customary fees when the money is collected, and if it is never collected then a reasonable fee for his trouble.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Pollard, one “for 100 dollars in land-office money,” the other for $100.37, “payable in leather to be delivered four miles from Bloomington,” was to “receive the customary fees when the money is collected, and if it is never collected then a reasonable fee for his trouble.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Pollard, one “for 100 dollars in land-office money,” the other for $100.37, “payable in leather to be delivered four miles from Bloomington,” was to “receive the customary fees when the money is collected, and if it is never collected then a reasonable fee for his trouble.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

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