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Like Grandpa. All over the country, Allied is largely a middleman between companies that need maintenance help and the many unions that supply it; at the Fair alone, it deals with 35 unions. The company has been filling this unique need for three generations. It was started in 1888 by Danish Immigrant David Fraad, who contracted with the Pennsylvania Railroad to clean and fill lamps at its Jersey City terminal. Later, he and his four sons branched out, began cleaning offices, stores and the mansions of the Pricks, Rockefellers and Astors...
What bothers Johnson and many another beefeater is that meat prices remain high even though distribution techniques have radically improved. Once, all cattle were trucked to feed lots for fattening, sold at stockyards, slaughtered, wholesaled and finally retailed-and each middleman sent the price a bit higher. Today, 110 supermarket chains sell almost 50% of all the meat eaten in the U.S. Some operate their own feed lots and slaughterhouses; the rest buy in bulk at favorable prices. By all the laws of economics and common sense, beef prices should be falling...
...House to Democratic National Committee headquarters. He knows the big cities' bosses, will be helpful to Johnson's campaign. > Legislative Liaison Aide Larry O'Brien will stay, but switch to strictly political duties later this year. O'Brien is eager to quit his role as middleman between the White House and Capitol Hill, and with Johnson in the driver's seat it is easy to see why. >Speechwriter Ted Sorensen will depart, probably before year's end, to write his close-in, intimate view of the Kennedy Administration...
...insists that McNamara has the right to ask such questions and deserves statistical, factual answers, not seven-seas rhetoric. In his role as a sort of service middleman, Korth says: "I love the Navy, but I have loyalties upwards...
...store for books but makes its big money in other merchandise. The Harvard Bookstore specializes in prints and paper-backs, Barnes and Noble's in review outlines; both stores cater to a large non-University clientele. In brief, savings afforded to students would be significant if the textbook middleman were eliminated, but none of the middlemen feel they would suffer...