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Comments made in the year
1955:
"I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way
they
are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for
$20."
"Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It
won't
be long before $2000 will only buy a used one."
"If
cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A
quarter a pack
is ridiculous."
"Did you hear the post office is thinking about
charging a
dime just to mail a letter?"
"If they raise the
minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able
to hire outside help at the
store."
"When I first started driving, who would have thought
gas
would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off
leaving the
car in the garage."
"Did you see where
some baseball player just signed a
contract for $75,000 a year just to
play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if
someday they'll be making
more
than the president."
"It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I
see where a
few married women are having to work to make ends
meet."
"It won't be long before young couples are going to have
to
hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work."
"I'm
just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the
door to a whole lot
of foreign business."
"Thank goodness I won't live to see the day
when the
Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder
if we are
electing the best people
to congress."
"There is no
sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a
weekend. It costs nearly
$15 a night to stay in a hotel."
"No one can afford to be sick any
more; $35 a day in the
hospital is too rich for my blood."
"If
they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut,
forget
it."
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