[ale] Fwd: Comments made in 1957 (fwd)

[Thompson Freeman]

I got this from my girlfriend who is attempting to keep the bills paid at
the local community college in the face of the massive revenue short falls
here in NC.

Some observations about 1957 economics.

The US had little/no economic competition as the rest of the world was
either hopelessly third world, or just coming back from being incinerated
by WWII.

Corporations at that time tended to pay income taxes.

There were more (many more) workers supporting the retirees of the day,
who tended to get sick only once or twice before dying, as opposed to
today with the ability to linger happily with three or four chronic
illnesses.

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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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Thompson Freeman          tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 07:36:00 -0400
From: Carol Houston <carol_houston at cpcc.edu>
To: ale at ale.org
To: tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Subject: Fwd: Comments made in 1957

The good old days!

Carol Houston
Accounts Payable
1308 Colony
Room 103B 
704-330-6058 phone
704-330-6328 fax
carol_houston at cpcc.edu

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To: "Margaret Foster" <margaret_foster at cpcc.edu>,"Danyse Kingsbery" <danyse_kingsbery at cpcc.edu>,"Mable Ussery" <Mable_Ussery at cpcc.edu>,"Carol Houston" <Carol_Houston at cpcc.cc.nc.us>
Subject: Comments made in 1957
From: "Susie Moore" <susie at alastria.com>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:30:47 -0400



Boy, do I remember the items listed below because it was the 
year I graduated from old Central High Schoo (Garringer Bldg)!   Okay, 
now stop laughing........You knew I was OLD!  

Talk to you later!
sm
 
Comments made in the year 1957:Â Â Â 1-- "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."Â Â 2 -- "Have you 
seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $5000 
will only buy a used one."Â Â 3 --- "If cigarettes keep going up 
in price, I'm going to quit. AÂ quarter a pack is 
ridiculous.."Â Â 4 -- "Did you hear the post office is thinking 
about charging a dime just to mail a letter?"  5 -- 
"If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire 
outside help at the store."Â Â 6 --"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."Â Â 7 -- "Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail 
hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys 
will be wearing their hair as long as the girls."  8 
-- "I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more.. Ever since they 
let Clark Gable get by with saying 'damn' in 'Gone With The Wind,' it 
seems every new movie has either "hell" or "damn" in it."Â Â 9 
-- "I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to 
put a man on the moon by the end of the of the century. They even have 
some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down 
in Texas."  10 -- "Did you see where some baseball 
player just signed a contract for $7,500 a year just to play ball? It 
wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the 
president."Â Â 11 -- "I never thought I'd see the day all our 
kitchen appliances would be electric.. They are even making electric 
typewriters now."Â Â 12 -- "It's too bad things are so tough 
nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make 
ends meet."Â Â 13 -- "It won't be long before young couples are 
going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both 
work."Â Â 14 -- "Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more; those 
Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a 
hat."Â Â 15 -- "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to 
open the door to a whole lot of foreign 
business."Â Â 16 -- "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."Â Â 17 -- "The drive-in restaurant is convenient in 
nice weather, but IÂ seriously doubt they will ever catch 
on."Â Â 18 -- "There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha 
anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a 
hotel."Â Â 19 -- "No one can afford to be sick any more; $35 a 
day in the hospital is too rich for my blood."  20 -- 
"If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget 
it."

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