<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 5/31/2001 6:05:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
<BR>dcml-request@stp.ling.uu.se writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I had asked this before, but nobody seemed to know at that time: how
<BR>much was 30 cents an hour when Barks was writing his stories? Was it a
<BR>princely sum, minimum wages, or less than minimum wages? (And was this
<BR>amount a princely sum when the Panama canal was being dug?)
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<BR>so what year was this story ?
<BR> when the USA minimum wage started (in the 1930s?), it was 25 cents an hour.
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<BR>Steven Rowe
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