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Originally Posted by sammyg2 View Post
IIRC my dad was an R&D engineer at Hercules specializing in explosives at the time and his gross pay was about $500 per month.

I's say that was pretty good pay for a bunch of dirty hippies
You must be a child of one of those progressive families where the parents tell the kids everything about their (the parent's) situation. The idea that my dad would tell me how much money he was making while I was growing up (in the seventies) makes my head hurt, in between bouts of uncontrollable laughter.
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