raghu wrote: > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Carrol Cox wrote: > > > What would be he equivalent amount today for $0.17 in 1936? > > > > since the US BLS consumer price index for an urban consumer rose > > 15.36-fold over the period 1936 to March 2008, 17 cents in 1936 would > > be the rough equivalent of $2.61. > > So it is "Brother can you spare a buck" this time around? > -raghu.
I'm trying to get a feel of the realtive real prices when I was in first grade and now. I happen to remember just three or four prices from the mid-30s. One of them was the price of gasoline: 6 gals. for $1. Another 10 cents (sometimes a nickel) for a hamburger; 3 _huge_ hershey bars for a dime. My mothet's monthly salary as a rural elementary teacher was $50 (for nine months). Even by 1942 it had only gone up to $90. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
