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It comes from price ceilings. When there's no capitalist making money for doing nothing, and their buddies in overplayed management positions making money doing almost nothing, you can produce sugar real cheap.
pretty sure there were plenty of owners still making money for nothing during the depression. They jumped out of windows because. OMG! LESS MONIES!!!