[PRCo] Re: PTM__Equipment__Acquisition

[James B. Holland]

Fred Schneider wrote:

> And let us not forget that $50 then is $500 today. Not really pocket 
> change to most people.


$403.73 according to 
http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/data/us/calc/    ----    using 
1950 as the $50.00-date!!


> On Oct 23, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
>
>> PERC, later PRMA, now PTM was incorporated in 1953.       We date the 
>> origin of the group to November 1946 and a West Penn fantrip.       
>> M11 was a piece of junk by 1967.       So were the 3700s in 1951, 
>> even if there had been money available for the purchase of one.       
>> It took some real scrounging to find the last $50 to buy M1 in 1949; 
>> Brown and Bartley were that much short when Galbraith was imposed upon!
>




Jim__Holland


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down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!