the toll of inflation

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/6/2009 07:12 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>Victory in the Grapefruit Circuit usually doesn't mean much.  That
>and a nickel still will get you on the subway.  NYTimes, March 22,
>1946, p. 30.  Arthur Daley's column.
>[referring to a boxing championship]  That and a dime will get
>either of them in the subway. . . .  NYTimes, May 30, 1951, p.
>31.  Also Arthur Daley's column.

Yes -- and I was outraged when the fare went from a nickel to a
dime.  (I had returned to the city from a summer at camp, and hadn't heard.)

Joel

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