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Obviously, in the absence of controls there would be no surplus. The prices of some grains might drop to rather low levels, but there would always be someone to buy the commodities. For example, food processing companies, hog raisers, and whiskey manufacturers could absorb more. Indeed, in a system free from vagarious government supports private speculators would undoubtedly hoard cheap grain in years of exceptional abundance, contributing to price stability. When manufacturers are confronted with a glutted inventory of a particular product, they must either cut prices, shift to production of another product, or eventually go out of business. Clearly...
...Paul, did you ever drink French whiskey...
...didn't know they made whiskey...
...between ter in his protagonist's paranoiac pride. Because Angelo was Italian, the local burghers never accepted him. With this alienation as a basis, Halberstam makes the bootlegger a proud man who must win completely or completely withdraw, who manifests his hatred for the hypocrites of Corvallis by selling whiskey to them. Pride, however, does not succeed in uniting the two sides of Angelo. We are unsure whether he is a man terribly hurt, striking back violently, or-a sadistic artist taking pains to perform every little criminal chore in exactly the right manner...
...handsome young matron in a white Carmen Miranda outfit went right on wiggling her bare midriff as she confided that she had left her three children with her husband's parents. "Eight years I've been coming," she boasted, tossing off still another glass of whiskey. "Only once, when I was pregnant, did I think I'd have to miss it. Luckily, the baby waited until two weeks after carnival to be born...