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| | [CTRL] [1] Merchants of Grain |
 | | The five enormous companies that controlled the global grain trade in the summer of 1975 all had their origins in that period a century ago when the cities of Europe, and of England in particular, needed foreign wheat. |
 | | By 1975, the founding families of those companies had meandered about and maneuvered all over three continents, surviving wars, famines, economic crashes, and revolutions, always moving, changing countries, trading their nationalities as well as grain, forming alliances with kings, queens, and Communist rulers, and disengaging when historical developments required it. |
 | | These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. |
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