Comments made in the  year 1955: 

"I'll tell you one  thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible  to buy a week's groceries for $20."

"Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2000 will only buy a used one."

"If cigarettes keep going up in  price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is  ridiculous."

"Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just  to mail a letter?"

"If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to  hire outside help at the store."

"When I first started driving,  who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be  better off leaving the car in the garage."

"Kids today are impossible. Those  duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next  thing  you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the  girls."

"I'm afraid to send  my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying 'damn' in 'Gone With The Wind,' it seems every new  movie  has either "hell" or "damn" in it.

"I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end  of the century.  They even have some fellows they call astronauts  preparing for it down in Texas."

"Did you see where some baseball  player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It  wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the  president."

"I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now."

"It's too bad things are so tough  nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends  meet."

"It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work."

"Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more; those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat."

"I'm just afraid the Volkswagen  car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign  business."

"Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress."

"The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I  seriously doubt they will ever catch on."

"There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a  hotel."

"No one can afford to be sick any more; $35 a day in the hospital  is too rich for my blood."

"If they think I'll pay 50 cents  for a hair cut,  forget it."

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