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  "text": "Cash drop rather than the ferry?\n\nwww.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...",
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          "alt": "Click or tap here to read “Yarmouth ferry reservations drop 22% as fewer Canadians travel to the U.S.”\n\nI still think a better approach to economic development for the south shore would be a helicopter drop:\n\nSuppose we hired a helicopter and pilot at a seasonal cost of a million dollars and sent the thing up above downtown Yarmouth each Saturday and Sunday for the 18 weeks of the summer season. The additional $14 million/year we’re already spending would translate into daily drops of $388,888, or 19,445 $20 bills, which is to say over an eight-hour period, 40 $20 bills per minute — call it one $20 bill every 1.5 seconds.\n\nGranted, we’d need an extra person to actually toss the money out of the helicopter, but I bet we could get Pam Mood to do it gratis.\n\nPeople would flock to Yarmouth to watch the spectacle. The running of the bulls in Pamplona would have nothing on the Yarmouth helicopter drop. Hotels would fill up, bars would do a brisk business, traffic would pile up on the 101 as Americans drive around.\n\nWe don’t need no stinking ferry.",
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