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Titel: Penningvärdet ($) 1939 i förhållande till nutid
Skrivet av: Thomas Vikander skrivet 2005-04-02, 05:18
To get a Real taste of life, there and then, chew into Alaska newspapers on microfilm. He lived on the coast probably. If he lived in a small harbour away from where the paper was published some costs could double. Check food ads, house sales, clothing ads, liquor, tobacco snus prices. Most people on the coast have gardens and put up preserves of fish, vegetables and berries. Many build their homes on cheap land or floats in bays, and use salvaged wood.They grow root and tuber crops. Firewood would be cheap and plentiful. A lot of informal trading takes place even today, in place of cash. Remember, no government health insurance was available and dental costs would have been expensive. But the salmon, crab and halibut would be cheap and plentiful and good!