Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Salvador Luria, MIT professor of Biology, Kenneth J. Arrow, professor of Economics, Willis E. Lamb, Pale professor of Physics, all Nobel prize winners endorsed the petition...
...platform: bring down food prices. From one end of the country to the other, consumers joined a boycott against meat, and both retailers and middlemen began to take a roasting. Some packing houses shut down, 20,000 meat-industry workers were laid off, and beef, pork and lamb sales dropped by as much as 50% in supermarkets...
People were not buying as much meat in restaurants, some of which offered meatless menus. There were occasional unrepentant carnivores. At La Goulue, a new Manhattan restaurant where the chic meet to eat, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Ultra Violet and Candy Darling feasted on lamb chops one afternoon last week. But at a nearby table Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco observed the boycott by lunching on salad...
...slip in some places, though it is still too soon to tell if the housewives will ultimately succeed. In Chicago, wholesale beef and hog prices dropped a few cents per Ib.; Grand Union Co., the tenth-largest food chain in the U.S., cut the price of beef, pork, lamb and veal by 100 per Ib., and a few other chains also made reductions. Some 200 leaders of the New Majority -housewives, labor-union officials and consumer-group representatives-prepared to go to Washington this week to lay plans for a continued boycott or some other strategy-like urging abstinence from...
...dubious victory in a battle with bankers over the price of loan money, and labor leaders have begun presenting demands that could give a new spin to the wage-price spiral. It hardly seems likely that President Nixon's imposition of price ceilings on beef, pork and lamb last week-which already is being called by Democrats too little and too late-will make these multiple hassles die down...