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harvest when farm debts were coming due, just to see prices rising and speculators getting (5)_____ rich. On various occasions, producer groups asked firmer control, but the government had no (6)___ wish to become involving, at least not until wartime when wheat prices threatened to run (7)_____ wild. Anxious to check inflation and rising life costs, the federal government appointed a board (8)____ of grain supervisors to handle with deliveries from the crops of 1917 and 1918. Grain (9)_____ Exchange trading was suspended, and farmers sold at prices fixed by the board. To handle