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A comment on How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels. Parent comment

Re:How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels by dman on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @05:36PM (#17922127)
$23,420.63 in todays dollars. [http://www.in2013dollars.com/1975-dollars-in-2018?amount=500...]
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Re:How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels by skookumchuck on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @06:51PM (#17922537)
I.e. the price of a modest new car. Hardly "immense".
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Re:How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels by st26 on Thursday September 06, 2018 @09:44AM (#17926187)
My parents bought a car for me to drive back when I was a teen. It cost $900, not $25,000.
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Re:How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels by skookumchuck on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:50PM (#17929906)
The average price of a new car in 1975 was $4,960.

http://www.autonews.com/article/19960626/ANA/606260830/1975-...

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Re:How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels by skookumchuck on Thursday September 06, 2018 @04:44PM (#17929390)
I wrote "new" car.
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