Got this information from Hemmings Motor News:
1951 Dollars & Cents
Median cost of a new home
$9,550
Average yearly salary
$3,526
Frigidaire refrigerator/freezer
$199.75
Woman's bone girdle
$6
Man's broadcloth shirt
$1.88
Federal hourly minimum wage
$.75
Eggs
$.74/dozen
Salt pork
$.42/pound
Betty Crocker cake mix
$.35
Tums antacid
$.10
First-class stamp
$.03
Average price residential electricity
$.028/kWh
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