Word: jobber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started to work in 1938, when he was just out of the University of Pennsylvania. To his $500 savings, his father, James, a textile jobber, added $5,000. With the money, they formed Airedale Worsted Mills, Inc. with Joe as president. They rented a loft in a Woonsocket (R.I.) mill, bought some secondhand machinery, hired two workers and started weaving worsted fabrics...
...keep chiselers out." Papa, they thought, was the man who knew best how to do that. And despite his sweetly reasonable air, it was testified that Papa would indeed put a merchant out of business, if he did not go along with him. Fred H. Vahlsing, wholesale fruit-&-vegetable jobber, testified that when he refused to sign a union contract in 1945, Papa had forced him to shut up shop. Out-of-town members of Papa's union had to pay his local an "unloading fee" of from $2.50 to $14.28 on any truck they drove into New York...
...started to bring out his latest models' to retail for $1.69 and $2.69 (at most, it costs him 33? to manufacture his ballpoints). So he wanted to clean out his stock of 350,000 obsolete models which retailed for $3.85. He sold the $3.85 pens to a jobber at a price so low that they could be retailed for about...
There is a married book-jobber who is useful for visions of glamorous sinning but not much else. There is her arty boob of a brother-in-law, whom she thinks she loves. There is a gay bully of a newspaperman, whom she thinks she hates. But after dinner, theater and a midnight drive with the Press, hate turns to love...
...fanciness of the finish increases. Thus, the incentive will be to turn out cheap instead of expensive goods. Bowles estimates that this will save consumers $17,000,000 a year on cotton goods, another $21,000,000 on rayon. And it will distribute between the manufacturer, the jobber and the converter the 5% boost in the cost of cotton goods caused by the amendment of cotton-loving Senator John H. Bankhead to the Stabilization Extension Act (TIME, Oct. 9). In addition, OPAster Bowles hopes that most clothing prices will be rolled back 1.5%. But the main goal is to keep...