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  2. Another '70's flashback: The meat crisis - AOL

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    With the return of inflation, insane gas prices, and Peter Brady, it's started to look like the 1970's revival is almost complete. However, as any cultural historian will attest, no reiteration of ...

  3. 1973 meat boycott - Wikipedia

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    Meat prices began to rise in late 1972. The Consumer price index published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics attributed this price increase to poor weather conditions, which increased the price for grain and animal feed, rising domestic demand, and unusually high export demand for pork due to the dollar devaluation in mid-February. [2]

  4. Rationing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    People were encouraged to keep victory gardens or shop locally in order to conserve transportation for the war effort. People were also encouraged to participate in 'Meatless Mondays', and when meat was served, all parts of the animal were to be eaten, including the offal. Wheat alternatives were encouraged, such as barley, corn, oats and ...

  5. 1970 Polish protests - Wikipedia

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    The 1970 Polish protests, also known as the December 1970 Events (Polish: Wydarzenia Grudnia 1970), occurred in northern Poland during 14–19 December 1970.The protests were sparked by a sudden increase in the prices of food and other everyday items while wages remained stagnant.

  6. 24 Discontinued '70s and '80s Foods That We'll Never Stop Craving

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    Radical Eats. Snack foods, insta-meals, cereals, and drinks tend to come and go, but the ones we remember from childhood seem to stick with us. Children of the 1970s and 1980s had a veritable ...

  7. Why do we have right-on-red, and is it time to get rid of it?

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    In this Dec. 23, 1973, file photo, cars line up in two directions at a gas station in New York City. Right-on-red was a gas-savings tool during the 1970s oil crisis.

  8. 1973 United States–Soviet Union wheat deal - Wikipedia

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    Hoping to prevent famine or other crisis, Soviet negotiators worked out a deal to buy grain on credit, but quickly exceeded their credit limit. American negotiators did not realize that both the Soviets and the world grain market had suffered shortfalls, and thus subsidized the purchase, leading it to be dubbed the "Great Grain Robbery".

  9. United States Army beef scandal - Wikipedia

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    The meat caused an unrecorded number of illnesses and death from dysentery and food poisoning, having an especially deadly effect on the thousands already weakened by the epidemics of malaria and yellow fever which were ravaging the unprotected American troops and would eventually kill twice as many men as combat with the Spanish.