It was the Atlantic that broke the market to sixty-five cents, filled their storage tanks and contracted a million barrels more than they had tankage for, then gypped the price to three dollars.

I can't shed any tears over that outfit." "Let's not argue the ethics of big business.

The law of supply and demand--" "Supply and demand, eh?
Ever strike you as queer that crude never breaks as long as the big companies have got their tanks full?
The price always toboggans when they're empty, and comes back when they're filled up.

That's supply and demand with the reverse English, ain't it?
Say, the Atlantic and those others play with us outsiders like we was mice.

When their bellies get empty they eat as many of us as they want, then they let the rest of us scurry around and hunt up new fields.