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Do you remember 1975   Cost of Living?     

 

 

• Yearly Inflation Rate USA 9.2% 

• Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 858 

• Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 7.25% 

• Cost of a gallon of Gas 44 cents 

• Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.77 

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  Cost of a gallon of Milk: $1.57 

• Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.10 ($0.13 as of 12/31/75) 

• Average cost new car   $4,250.00

•  Average Cost of new house $39,300.00 

• Average Income per year $14,100.00 

• Average Monthly Rent $200.00 

• Foster Grant Sun Glasses $5.00 

• Chevrolet Caprice $4,819 

• Ford Mustang II $4,105 

• Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale $5,626 

• Pontiac Ventura Coupe $3,829

 

Economy

President: Gerald R. Ford 

Vice President: Nelson A. Rockefeller 

Population: 215,973,199 

Life expectancy: 72.6 years 

Dow-Jones  

High: 860 

Low: 610 

Federal spending: $332.33 billion 

Federal debt: $541.9 billion 

Inflation: 14.1% 

 

Fiction Best Sellers

• Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow     

• The Moneylenders - Arthur Hailey     

• Curtain - Agatha Christie     

• Looking for Mister Goodbar - Judith Rossner     

• The Choirboys - Joseph Wambaugh     

• The Eagle Has Landed - Jack Higgins     

• The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton     

• Shogun - James Clavell     

 

Nonfiction Best Sellers

• Angels: God's Secret Agents - Billy Graham     

• Winning through Intimidation - Robert Ringer     

• TM - Harold H. Bloomfield     

• The Ascent of Man - Jacob Bronowski     

• Sylvia Porter's Money Book - Sylvia Porter     

• Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week - Laurence E. Morehouse, Leonard Gross     

 

Pulitzer Fiction

• The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara   (Book) 

 

Pulitzer Non-fiction

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard