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- ↑ Entry for Wham-O Super-Book: Celebrating 60 Years Inside the Fun Factory on Amazon.com
- ↑ Orbanes, Philip E. (2006). Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game—And How it Got that Way (1st ed.). Da Capo Press. p. 179. ISBN 0-306-81574-5.
