I'm no economist, but I distinctly remember the Nixon years of high inflation, unemployment and price and wage freezes.
Mmmmm, Nixon. I remember watching The Carol Burnett Show, Adam-12, Hawaii Five-O, the Vietnam war and the Apollo missions on 25 inch B&W television (with a nearly square aspect ratio), duck and cover drills in school, Henry Kissinger, ping-pong in China, the Manson murders, kids talking about their father or uncle or older brother who had been killed in Vietnam, and waiting for the school bus in the dark on cold winter mornings in Minnesota...
but yeah, turbulent times those.
Prices are elastic...and sticky.