I found a wayback machine

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Just for the sake of wondering what affect that inflation has on the cost of things, here's what I found:

• If I paid $1.75 for an issue in 1982, it is equivalent to $4.26 today, not $5.99
  twenty-five cents in 1946 would be $3.26 today
  and ten cent issues in 1934 would be $1.75 today
  
  .40 per word in 1982 figures to .97 today, not $2.05
  .05 per word in 1946 is .60 today
  and one cent per word in 1934 would only be .18 today

All showing that the cost of MRR magazine is way ahead of inflation, plus they give you less in the way of content. I guess that also goes hand-in-hand with the fact that they only have a fraction of the advertisers they use to have, probably based on cost as well as the dwindling number of manufacturers and dealers.

If we treat staff like dollars, they haven't kept up with inflation.

• A staff of 4 in 1934 would equate to one of 70 today,
  however, a staff of 5 in 1946 only becomes one of 60 today
  and a staff of 14 in 1982 would be on of 34 today.

In fact though, the staffing numbers shouldn't have anything to do with inflation, only their payroll. And yes, they increase the staff because of a bigger workload, more books to publish, the internet, videos and now CD's.

Speaking of the internet, the 1982 issue had no advertising references listing their web sites, which is understandable since Internet access was limited to just a small group of people. Today, every advertiser has one.