Dipping Our Toe in the Prosperity Pool (or should I say, inkwell?)
Posted in Standards of Living on Jun 19th, 2008
I love drinking Peach Snapple, not least of all because of the neat factoids imprinted on the inside of the caps. When the ballpoint pen was first mass-introduced at Gimbels in 1945 (more on Gimbels in an upcoming post), it sold for a whopping $12.50. That was in 1945 dollars, or the equivalent of $150.43 […]
