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68,570. The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart. W C Fields
68,571. The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. Flip Wilson
68,572. There has never been an age so full of humbug. Humbug everywhere, even in science. For years now the scientists have been promising us every morning a new miracle, a new element, a new metal, guaranteeing to warm us with copper discs immersed in water, to feed us with nothing, to kill us at no expense whatever on a grand scale, to keep us alive indefinitely, to make iron out of heaven knows what. And all this fantastic, scientific humbugging leads to membership of the Institute, to decorations, to influence, to stipends, to the respect of serious people. In the meantime the cost of living rises, doubles, trebles; there is a shortage of raw materials; even death makes no progress – as we saw at Sebastopol, where men cut each other to ribbons – and the cheapest goods are still the worst goods in the world. Jules & Edmond de Goncourt
68,573. Killed By the Cost of Living: OAP takes his life over rising bills. Western Morning News headline; George Mechan 92 wired himself to Mains