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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: He was only mildly interested. He talked to anyone who would
talk to him, though he was naturally a shy man. He talked to the
barber, the grocer, the druggist, the streetcar conductor, the
milkman, the iceman. But the price of wheat did not interest
these gentlemen. They did not know that the price of wheat was
the most vital topic of conversation in the world.
"Well, now," he would say, "you take this year's wheat crop,
with about 917,000,000 bushels of wheat harvested, why, that's
what's going to win the war! Yes, sirree! No wheat, no winning,
that's what I say."
"Ya-as, it is!" the city men would scoff. But the queer part
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