30 cents / hour

[Kriton Kyrimis]

-------SLIGHT SPOILER FOR "The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut" AHEAD:-------

DON:

In this story, when Scrooge hears that workers in the Panama canal may
earn up to 30 cents an hour, he exclaims that he is never going to pay
anyone such princely wages, especially a relative!

I had asked this before, but nobody seemed to know at that time: how
much was 30 cents an hour when Barks was writing his stories? Was it a
princely sum, minimum wages, or less than minimum wages? (And was this
amount a princely sum when the Panama canal was being dug?)

	Kriton	(e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
	      	(WWW:    http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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"Nobody would have the gumption to tell the captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise
 he couldn't have his doctor, his dentist, his favorite carpenter, or his dog
 groomer at his side if he wanted to, security clearance or not."
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