[ARC5] Prices in "ye goode olde dayes"

Neil neilb at ihug.co.nz
Thu Mar 7 16:22:56 EST 2013


> A little high for the DX-35. The price in 1957 was $56.95

In 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was earning $1.25 an hour for a 5-day
week, according to the testimony of his boss, Roy Truly:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/truly1.htm

That price of $56.95 for the DX-35 probably represented a little more
than a week's wages for an unskilled worker such as Oswald.

73 de Neil ZL1ANM


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