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[[underline]] Outside Meals [[/underline]] --I believe these were primarily my lunches at the GE and they varied from 25 [[cents symbol]] to 50 [[cents symbol]], the latter probably representing an occasional blow-out on a steak. 

[[underline]] Labor and Services [[/underline]]--This was primarily, I believe, for the high school girl, Marjorie, whom we paid [[dollar symbol]]3 per week for her after-school services. When she had to give up working on doctor's orders, it appears that we paid her 50 [[cents symbol]] an evening for baby-sitting. 

[[underline]] Amusements and Dues [[/underline]]--It appears that movie admissions were around 30-35[[cents symbol]] per person. 

[[underline]] Gasoline and Oils [[/underline]]--There are periodical entries of 96[[cents symbol]] and as we used to buy five gallons at a time, I'd assume that gas was 19[[cents symbol]] per gallon. However, on April 29th and in the May record, this seems to increase to 21[[cents symbol]] since there are [[dollar symbol]]1.05 entires instead. 

On the income side, the record reveals the following for the month of April 1930:

Texas Co. Dividend [[dollar symbol]]7.50
Calumet & Hecla dividend 10.00
St.Louis-San Francisco dividend 20.00

Bowling prize .60

Electric Bond & Share 1 1/2[[percent symbol]] (17.25)

Mother's Easter present 20.00
Dad's Easter present 10.00
Bab's clothes (This was a gift from Muv) 7.00
Insurance (premium) (Gift of Willie's Dad) 11.00
Compensation from GE (presumably) [[underline]]252.15[[/underline]]
Total [[dollar symbol]]355.49

The dividends were the result of our stock purchases in the fall of 1929, so we were at least getting a little return on our money. The EB&S item I don't recall--maybe a stock dividend, rights, or something special. The GE compensation has me mystified as it is more than [[dollar symbol]]42 per week, so I can only assume that I finally for a raise early in 1930 contrary to my previous statement that I had to wait until after the Depression for this. We could live pretty high off the hog at [[dollar symbol]]355 a month but I know it wasn't this high every month and it was soon to begin a slide that lasted up into 1932-1933 when I remember quite distinctly getting down to four days a week of work and an annual rate of about [[dollar symbol]]1,900 and lucky to have a job at all. Some of the boy got down to three days a week, so I was one of the lucky ones.   

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Not sure why transcriber didn't just type the "$"?