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The average price for a pound of butter in 1975 was $1.025.

The average gross hourly wage for a factory worker in 1975 was $4.81.

4.81/1.025=4.692 lb/hr

60/4.692=12.78 minutes to buy one pound of butter.

Sources:

Avg Wage (see chart 606): babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id

Avg Prices:
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id

HathiTrustStatistical abstract of the United States / prepared by the chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department. 1976.