>The following were some comments made in the year 1957:
>
>(1) "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are,
>its going to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for $20.00."
>
>(2) "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be
>long when $5000 will only buy a used one."
>
>(3) "If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A
>quarter a pack is ridiculous."
>
>(4) "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime
>just to mail a letter?"
>
>(5) "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to
>hire outside help at the store."
>
>(6) "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would
>someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving
>the car in the garage,"
>
>(7) "Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail hair cuts make it
>impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be
>wearing their hair as long as the girls,"
>
>(8) "I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since
>they let Clark Gable get by with saying damn in "Gone With The
>Wind," it seems every new movie has either Hell or damn in it."
>
>(9) "I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible
>to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have
>some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas."
>
>(10) "Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract
>for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if
>someday that they will be making more than the President."
>
>(11) "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances
>would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now."
>
>(12) "It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few
>married women are having to work to make ends meet."
>
>(13) "It won't be long before young couples are going to have to
>hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work."
>
>(14) "Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars
>seem to be getting divorces at the drop of a hat."
>
>(15) "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door
>to a whole lot of foreign business."
>
>(16) "Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government
>takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are
>electing the best people to Congress."
>
>(17) "The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I
>seriously doubt they will ever catch on."
>
>
>
>(18) "There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a
>weekend. It costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel."
>
>(19) "No one can afford to be sick any more, $35.00 a day in the
>hospital is too rich for my blood."
Fred |
