Excerpt from The Investors' Review, Vol. 41: January 5, 1918 The Government has taken over the control of all dealings in these articles; it has sent out a Commission to Greece and a Commission to Spain for currants and raisins respectively. These Commissioners have been gone some weeks, and from the latest information little or nothing of the new cr0ps has been shipped to date. This time last year there were about tons of Greek currants here and afloat and about tons' of Spanish raisins. If the Government action has been taken with a view of obtaining supplies for our markets of a useful food, the comparison is not a very good one; if, on the other hand, the object of all these steps has been to cut off supplies, they have made quite a complete success. In a footnote it is stated that several months ago importing houses who were making contracts, 'and would have brought in supplies in preper time, were notified that they must not do so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.