The Value of a Dollar - Millennium Edition
Edition: Millennium edition
Publisher: Universal Reference Publications (CT)
Published: January 1999
Place of publication: Lakeville, CT, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9781891482496
Subjects: Consumer issues; Domestic trade & commerce; Labour economics; Market research; Purchasing power; Economics - Microeconomics; Consumer Economics (General); Prices; Wages; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; USA; History; Economic History; Money & Monetary Policy; United States; Consumer Behavior - General; Labor
Table of contents: title: 1860-1899: The age of endeavor -- 1900-1919: the Progressive Era and World War I -- 1920-1939: Return to normalcy, the Great Depression, and recovery -- 1940-1959: World War II, recovery and the Cold War -- 1960-1999: The Vietnam War and the global economy -- Appendix. Federal gasoline tax rate -- Public debt of the federal government -- Postal rate for first class mail -- Cable TV, average monthly basic rate -- Telephone toll rates between New York City and Chicago -- Average cost to community hospitals per patient -- Public elementary and secondary school expenditure per pupil -- Average price of electricity, residential -- Institutions of higher education (public, four year) tuition and required fees -- Institutions of higher education (private, four year) tuition and required fees -- Federal hourly minimum wage -- Telegraph rates between New York City and San Francisco -- Wholesale price of brick -- Wholesale price of coal -- Wholesale price of sugar -- Hardback book (fiction), average retail price -- Gasoline prices -- Median sales price, new homes.