Thread: Boating on a budget? That's for me!
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Default Boating on a budget? That's for me!
On 1/6/2012 3:34 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:52:04 -0500, X ` Man
wrote:

We were paid nearly three times the minimum wage at that time, plus
bennies.

Minimum wage in 1963 was about a buck an hour.

Actually from what I read, it was $.25 an hour till sometime in 1963
when President Kennedy raised it to $1.25...
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