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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3050939, member: 57463"]Not entirely true. It is easy enough to find the original order. One archive is the American Presidency Project of the University of California at Santa Barbara.</p><p><a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14611" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14611" rel="nofollow">http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14611</a></p><p>WikiSource is also a huge archive of very many kinds of documents, including this one.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Anyone could keep $100 in gold coin. Generally, considering the wage data from these tables below, that would be like $2500 today. </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>If gold was $32 per ounce then, and is $1340 right this moment, then the ratio would bring the dollar value amount up to $4187. </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Alternately, regardless of the price of gold, the coins said "Ten Dollars" and "Twenty Dollars" so, $100 was five ounces or $6700 right now. </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Of course, no amount of money in 1932 would buy a computer. So, standard of living has to be taken into account. </b></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwages/1920-1929" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwages/1920-1929" rel="nofollow">https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwages/1920-1929</a></p><p><a href="https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/SCB/pages/1935-1939/2829_1935-1939.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/SCB/pages/1935-1939/2829_1935-1939.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/SCB/pages/1935-1939/2829_1935-1939.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106007458745;view=1up;seq=181" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106007458745;view=1up;seq=181" rel="nofollow">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106007458745;view=1up;seq=181</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3050939, member: 57463"]Not entirely true. It is easy enough to find the original order. One archive is the American Presidency Project of the University of California at Santa Barbara. [url]http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14611[/url] WikiSource is also a huge archive of very many kinds of documents, including this one. [url]https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102[/url] [B]Anyone could keep $100 in gold coin. Generally, considering the wage data from these tables below, that would be like $2500 today. If gold was $32 per ounce then, and is $1340 right this moment, then the ratio would bring the dollar value amount up to $4187. Alternately, regardless of the price of gold, the coins said "Ten Dollars" and "Twenty Dollars" so, $100 was five ounces or $6700 right now. Of course, no amount of money in 1932 would buy a computer. So, standard of living has to be taken into account. [/B] [url]https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwages/1920-1929[/url] [url]https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/SCB/pages/1935-1939/2829_1935-1939.pdf[/url] [url]https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106007458745;view=1up;seq=181[/url][/QUOTE]
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