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Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by NeedMoreTea on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @09:37PM (#21210086)
Hmm, never knew that. :)

I knew of the Bread Act that set it 1lb/2lb, and the Middle Ages origins that worked "backwards" - when the price of the loaf was fixed and the weight of the loaf was varied as the price of wheat changed.

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Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by OJFord on Thursday October 10, 2019 @04:11AM (#21212067)
In some sense that makes much more sense - the people are starving? Well, supply more grain then.

Doesn't quite gel with modern manufacturing, though!

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