"The Whole Six Yards" (UNCLASSIFIED)

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Sep 11 15:05:37 UTC 2012


At 9/11/2012 06:52 AM, Stephen Goranson wrote:
>Proponents of the "mystical number" proposal (if any remain, above
>zero) might have difficulty saying it was mystical nine, or six,
>whatever. Did anything that we know about happen in the US with nine
>yards between 1921 and 1956? ....

Inflation?

Joel

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