It appears from the report that a certain class of land speculators, when buying land for reselling in plots, do not pay so much attention to the qualities of the land as to its advertising possibilities.
"A Stake in the Land"
Peter Alexander Speek
4. Also no foreign merchant with his partner may set up any market within the city for reselling goods in the city, nor may he approach a citizen for making a bargain, nor may he stop longer in the City.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
The purpose of the embargo was not to prevent the neutral countries from securing foodstuffs from America for their own consumption, but to prevent their reselling such supplies at a profit to Germany.
"Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights"
Kelly Miller