"The harvests last year were bad all over the world, you know, and this year, except in the States and Canada, they will be worse.

With another fifty million it might be done." "But they're taking deliveries," White pointed out.

"They have granaries all over the kingdom, subsidiary companies to do the dirty work of refusing to sell.

Already they say that three quarters of the wheat of the country is in their hands, and mind you, they sell nothing.

The price goes up and up, just the same as the price of their shares has risen.
They buy but they never sell.