The Cost of Living During the Cold War

In 1951, Steve Czekalinski posed with his wife and two boys in the midst of all of the food products that a "typical" family would have bought that year. All of that food weighed 2½ tons and cost the $1,300. The list included 699 bottles of milk, 578 pounds of meat, 131 dozen eggs, 1.190 pounds of vegetables and 440 pounds of fresh fruit, plus sugar flour, bread and cereal. You can see what some of the items from Czekalinski's food cart cost in 1951 and today  as well as what the item would have cost if food had gone up by the same inflation rate as other products  by rolling your mouse over various parts of the picturethe case) of the Board's secretary, as of August 19, 1949, there were 1,498 Federal savings and loan associations, 59 of which are now operating 73 branches in 22 states and the District of Columbia.  An administrative body cannot by its interpretation of the statute under which it operates increase its power beyond that given by the legislative body.  But a contemporaneous interpretation by the authorized administrative agency is of weight in determining what the powers are.  This has been held many times and we make no attempt to exhaust the authorities on the point.6


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The weight to be given to the agency's interpretation of its authority here is emphasized by the subsequent legislative history.  In the 81st Congress a House Bill and a Senate