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The Octopus

CHAPTER I
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When in feeding China you have decreased the European shipments, the effect is instantaneous.

Prices go up in Europe without having the least effect upon the prices in China.

We hold the key, we have the wheat,--infinitely more than we ourselves can eat.
Asia and Europe must look to America to be fed.

What fatuous neglect of opportunity to continue to deluge Europe with our surplus food when the East trembles upon the verge of starvation!" The two men, Cedarquist and Magnus, continued the conversation a little further.

The manufacturer's idea was new to the Governor.


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