No need to twist figures to make your point. As you point out, there was no minimum work week until the Fair labor Standards Act was passed in '38. You might also mention that people regularly starved to death during the GD, that labor leaders and activists were beaten killed, blackballed, that striking workers were met with Pinkerton guards and the state National Guard, were sometimes loaded onto boxcars and railed across state lines to be dumped. You might also mention that Harvard was as far away as the moon for working families (not true today) and health care was mostly palliative...very few cancer cures, no antibiotics, few vaccines. Maybe you might point out that unemployment averaged above 16% for 9 straight years. Then there's that gallon of gas, in equivalent dollars it would been $1.90 a gallon, which is not "46 times as much", not that most families could afford a car.