Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/22

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Subject: [Leica] Prices of long ago
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:59:37 -0400

> 2. In 1954 I bought a pair of new Leica cameras at an airport duty free
> store with my unused leave pay from the Army, a IIIF with a f2.0 Summicron
> and a first edition M3 with a f2.8 Elmar. I paid $154 for each. I had
> trouble getting them through customs because I had TWO cameras. A special
> letter from E. Leitz, NY resolved the problem.
> 
> 
> 3. My first post Army job offer was as an assistant professor at $8000 per
> year. This was too little to support a wife and baby so I took a job in the
> military/industrial complex at twice the salary. In 1963 I was offered a
> better paying professorship  at the newly formed City Univ. of New York 
> grad


The term  " military-industrial complex." was coined on my birthday 17
January 1961 in Ike's farewell address.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex

[Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner





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