My very first paper route, in 1952, generated right at $35 a month, for roughly 50 to 55 subscribers. That was for the local afternoon paper. I did better after switching to the other publisher's morning paper, and about 80 subscribers on essentially the same route. But a couple of years later, part-time at a grocers' was when there was really enough for new 35s, instead of used 29s.
My original Nobody flying wings had suction tanks, but I saw some modified versions called Streamer Creamers, and built at least one, using a pen bladder tank, and liked that system. Then, there was a Half Fast, with which I think I reverted to a plain suction tank at first. I'm fairly sure I modified that to use the pen bladder system. Whichever came first, Whatzit, Quicker, or Super Whatzit, I built for a Fox CS Series I (Silver Head), and crankcase pressure tank (disliked it).
The summer of '57, I built a Quicker as my last combat plane for the next four years, but I used a Johnson that another modeler owned, to fly faster than I'd ever gone with any combat model. There weren't very many sanctioned contests within easy reach, unless I cadged rides with older competitors, so I continued building modified profile models without LG, for plain fun bouts, and continued using one or another of an original pair of Torp 29s I more or less started with.
I used a Hotter'n'that wing in a couple of those. The only planes I still had to start flying again in 1961 with were two Veco Tomahawks, with gear, and a Palmer Mars. But a friend gave me a couple of old Quickers that I repaired (one became a 19-size flapped stunter), and I took the singleton semi-stock Quicker (longer tail) to a contest, using the Fox CS engine I'd used four years before. I think I was eliminated in the first round.