[geeks] Special skills draft?

[Ross Lonstein]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:38:40PM -0500, Mike Parson wrote:
        [snip]
> Model-T 'Tin Lizzy' was that it was made cheaply and for the common man.
> This may have been the first time it was done in Europe or Germany, but
> Ford had a car that an average working man in the US could buy for about
> a generation before the VW started rolling off lines under Hitler's
        [snip]

Piping up with some interesting numbers, the original Model-T sold in
1908 for about $850. By 1915 the price was down below $300 and it
stayed there for several years. Why $300? The average American worker
earned $300 per year. Ford paid his employees better than that and
many of them were able to afford the cars they built.

- Ross