wages

[SRoweCanoe@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/31/2001 6:05:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dcml-request at stp.ling.uu.se writes:


> 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?)
> 

so what year was this story ?
  when the USA minimum wage started (in the 1930s?), it was 25 cents an hour. 
 

Steven Rowe

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