antedating "standard of living" (1890)

Stephen Goranson goranson at DUKE.EDU
Sun Oct 7 12:10:15 UTC 2007


ads-l archive has 1902

The Standard Of Living In The United States. (News)
      The Times Monday, Sep 22, 1890; pg. 6; Issue 33123; col D
At the last meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science...Mr. Dodge...read a paper on the standard of living in the United
States, in the course of which he said it was the highest known, and it was
progressive.

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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