Wednesday, 15 October 2014

The Saturday Evening Post May 14 1960 Page 85

Journey Into Danger
continued on page 88
THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 
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The average price of a new home then was $12700 about 2.46 times the yearly average wage of $5162. Which was about 1.99 times the price of a new car $2600. And the future was progressive not regressive



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