"I can't believe that!" said Alice.
"Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."
Even with much holding of breath and shutting of eyes, U.S. shoppers last week could hardly believe that potatoes were so scarce they had disappeared from thousands of stores. Only two years ago, they were rotting on farms by the ton. Now there was a flourishing black market, with prices double OPS ceilings. Many wholesalers were selling them only on tie-in sales with onions or other vegetables whose prices...
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