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Re: [Pen-l] Query

Carrol Cox wrote:
> What would be he equivalent amount today for $0.17 in 1936?

since the US BLS consumer price index for an urban consumer rose
15.36-fold over the period 1936 to March 2008, 17 cents in 1936 would
be the rough equivalent of $2.61.

Of course, the consumer price index is quite imperfect. But it may be
the best measure we have.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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