I too was born during WW II ( we're called "WAR BABIES !" )and the so-called "SILENT GENERATION" was that of our parents!
Maybe $100 a week was out of your reach, where you live/d, but that was NOT the case where I lived; not by a long shot.
Yes, we are war babies but I have never heard of that tag being used for a whole generation. Click on the link below, the silent generation refers to those born between 1925 and 1945 so some who were born to very young parents during the war would be included along with their parents in the silent generation. I never said a hundred a week was out of reach, it was not for all but it was for the majority in this area in the fifties. Of course it bought far more here than in the Northern states at that time. A small farm with a house
could be had here for five thousand or less. On the other hand some used items such as furniture apparently were worth more here than up North. I remember one business run by an enterprising family who happened to be black, they ran a truck back and forth to New York and brought back used furniture, old books, bicycles and other odd items to sell here. We bought a number of books from them.
Incidentally you seem very eager to prove me wrong on something. This is supposed to be fun, not a contest.
https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-silent-generation-definition-characteristics-facts.html