starvation corner
n.— «Mr. Keene was the person who worked up the starvation corner in grain a couple of years ago. He would have starved the poor men of America if he could in order to have swelled his bank account.» —National Police Gazette May 17, 1884. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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