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To: shove_it
"Wages $25 per week"

Damn good wages for a teenager. Gold was $20 an ounce. So a teenager could make $1535 clear a week.

sarcasm> Thank goodness for the Federal Reserve and all the laws, control, taxes, and regulation that came with it over the last 100 years, got rid of that darned Gold Standard. /sarcasm>

49 posted on 12/07/2013 10:40:23 AM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: Partisan Gunslinger
So a teenager could make $1535 clear a week.

In today's dollars I should have said.

50 posted on 12/07/2013 10:41:56 AM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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