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Originally Posted by Joe Connor
Interesting stuff:
1. This fellow was born in 1913 so he would have been only 27 in 1940.
2. The $100 was not chump change. Per the CPI calculator, $100 in 1940 equals $1,715.97 in today's dollars.
3. Per the Wikipedia article, this fellow was pretty busy in the years around 1940.
"In 1938 he graduated from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania,with distinction and recipient of the A. Atwater Kent Prize in Electrical Engineering] (see Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia) He then became a television field engineer for RCA. On one occasion in 1939 he and another field engineer installed a television set in the honeymoon cottage of movie stars Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, and Simons showed her how to operate it. Later Simons helped run the RCA television exhibit...at the 1939 World’s Fair. In the summer of 1940 he was sent by RCA to run the public address system and make recordings of speeches on the campaign train of Wendell Willkie, the Republican candidate for president that year."
4. Given his TV-related activities for RCA, why would he have to buy this set? He sounds like one of their go-to guys for TV matters.
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Regarding your fourth entry!
Most firms, if not all, don't give anything away for obvious reasons. Liability and maybe disention from other employees. Anyone that worked for a firm, for any length of time, knows what thats all about. Children come in all ages.
Many times an item is posted and bid on.