According to the bank teller, the $62 that the Stooges attempt to invest for the little boy's leg surgery would mature to $500 on March 20th, 2042. However, the inflationary value of the money in 2020 is over $1100.
Columbia production number 400.
FDR, the US president at the time, arranges for an operation to cure the young boy's paralysis. In real life, FDR was himself paralyzed in his legs, due to polio or Guillain-Barre syndrome.
The amount of time that the bank teller says is required to grow $62 into $500, translates to an annual percentage rate of two percent, which was a common rate of return on savings accounts in 1937.