T.N.T. made its inventor a million dollars.
4 seconds sound clip from the Battle Circus (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:30:59 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Good. That's good. At least you're not wasting your time.
- That was a beautiful job in surgery today.
- Well, this is a beautiful job I'm looking at.
- To be able to do what you did, it's kind of wonderful.
- Is it?
- Mm-hmm.
- The man who made the machine gun got rich.
- T.N.T. made its inventor a million dollars.
- But I'll bet you don't know the name of the man who discovered novocain.
- Nothing.
- Major... You have got to stop creeping up on me.
- Would you like to hear the story of my life?
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