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Old Mon Oct 20, 2008, 10:26pm
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My relatives, especially my in-laws, are worth a lot less than $50.00 ...

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I can't get over that the "What's My Line" contestants winning $50 was considered a huge prize back in the 50s. Everything's relative.
Do we have a Forum correct math guy to account for inflation and tell us what this would be in 2008 dollars? How about the guy that makes all those geometric, trigometric, diagrams? I think it's Camnron Rust. He seems pretty bright, in a geeky, nerdy, kind of way.
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Old Mon Oct 20, 2008, 11:05pm
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Do we have a Forum correct math guy to account for inflation and tell us what this would be in 2008 dollars? How about the guy that makes all those geometric, trigometric, diagrams? I think it's Camnron Rust. He seems pretty bright, in a geeky, nerdy, kind of way.
$50 1956 USD is $381.85 2007 USD.

Source: http://www.miseryindex.us/irbyyear.asp
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Old Mon Oct 20, 2008, 11:22pm
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$50 1956 USD is $381.85 2007 USD.

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Which comes out to $6,190.60 if the $750 appearance feed was included. That is a lot of money for basically doing nothing, it makes sense that they were so excited.
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