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Yeah, my standard easy to remember baseline is usually that in 1969 a 
standard SWB Land Rover cost $3500 and I was making $750/month.  In 1996 a 
standard SWB Land Rover cost $35,000 and I was making about $7500/month.  Which is 
10X in just under 30 years, not 9X in 60 years.  

In a message dated 6/22/2010 1:00:28 PM Central Daylight Time, 
joldenburg2 at new.rr.com writes: 
> The NASA C.P.I. Inflation calculator puts $57 -$75 in 1948 dollars being 
> the 2010 equivalent of $516.02 to $678.98. Sill sound cheap to you guy's?
> 
> It even worse in actuality as the Gov'mt skews the numbers on housing and 
> transportaion though it's selection of areas to base this upon.
> Jon AB9AH
> ---- D C *Mac* Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> =============
> 
> When I graduated high school in 1955, $100/week was
> considered to be pretty good pay!
> 
> As a 2d Lt on flying status in USAF in 1961, my total
> pay was around $455 per month, not much better!
> 

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