kosuga in A Sentence

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    As for Kosuga and Siegel, they got away completely scot-free because they would technically not committed a crime.

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    There was no such frost coming, but when this news leaked, people began panic-buying onions, driving up the price and thus making Kosuga his money.

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    In the Autumn of 1955, after almost a year of frantic buying, Siegel and Kosuga owned 98% of the onions in Chicago(about 30 million pounds worth).

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    As shady as that move was, it doesn't even come close to what Kosuga did in 1955 when he teamed up with his friend Sam Siegel.

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    As an onion farmer himself, Kosuga held a considerable advantage over the other traders and he very quickly became a rich man buying and selling onion futures.

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    Kosuga's wife made him promise never to trade again after his failed trades resulted in them having to borrow money from a family friend just to stay afloat.

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    To top it all off, Kosuga was so loved by his community that Pine Island(the place he called his home) voted him their citizen of the year in 1987.

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    Ignoring the pleas of his wife, Kosuga soon went back to trading, only this time instead of trading wheat, he stuck to what he knew and began trading onions.

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    Perhaps the most curious part of all of this is that Vincent Kosuga was by all accounts a nice guy when he wasn't ruining people on the onion market.

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    In other words, Kosuga was buying onion futures in the hopes that the price would go up when that date arrived so that he could sell them for a profit.

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    Kosuga was also a very devout Catholic and he donated so much money to help fund the church's charitable activities that he was given a private audience with three different Popes.

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    So, in an incredibly sneaky and probably illegal move, Kosuga bribed an official at the Chicago weather office to issue a severe frost warning(which would lead to many onion crops failing).

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    Prior to his stint on the commodities market as the king of onions, Vincent Kosuga was an unimposing, 5 ft 4 inch tall onion farmer who had turned an unwanted 5000 acre patch…(more).

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    Knowing that his own crop was coming along nicely, Kosuga surmised that the rest of the market would follow suit and hence when the time to sell came, the market would be full of onions and the price would drop too much.

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    Prior to his stint on the commodities market as the king of onions, Vincent Kosuga was an unimposing, 5 ft 4 inch tall onion farmer who had turned an unwanted 5000 acre patch of dirt into a veritable onion-filled garden of Eden.

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    Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, we should note that a few years prior to this, Kosuga had tried to trade wheat futures on the commodities market and screwed up so badly that he brought his family to the brink of bankruptcy.

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