Sam Siegel and Vincent Kosuga cornered the market for this food by buying so many futures that they controlled 98% of them in Chicago. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this food that titles a "Futures Act" that banned the trading of contracts on them, as well as box office receipts, after 30 million pounds of them were shipped and stored.
ANSWER: onions [accept Onion Futures Act]
[10e] Though lobbyist E. B. Harris called it "burning down the barn to find a suspected rat," the Onion Futures Act was signed anyway by this president in 1958. This president created the Interstate Highway System.
ANSWER: Dwight D. Eisenhower [or Dwight David Eisenhower]
[10h] The Onion Futures Act was sponsored by this politician, who served as House Minority leader from 1965 to 1973. This politician's life was spared by Oliver Sipple.
ANSWER: Gerald Ford [or Gerald Rudolph Ford; or Leslie Lynch King, Jr.]
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