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...Middleman. In Detroit, Horace Booth, secretary treasurer of United Auto Workers' C.I.O. Local 922, admitted cashing 130 union checks, but insisted that he "didn't profit a cent": "I played the numbers and lost...
...greatest coup was forcing manufacturers to sell to him direct, a practice traditionally frowned on by them. By browbeating, cajoling and threatening to take his business elsewhere, Bill Levitt now buys even his television sets from the manufacturer, pays no middleman's fees. By his special building and buying methods, he saves $1,000 a house...
George Greene, director of the University Mailing Service, sits in the Gateman's Lodge by the Widener Gate and acts as middleman between the Post Office and the University. He also handles all mail circulating around the various departments and administrative divisions...
...took Queen Victoria herself to show him where to draw the line in his publicity schemes. With no middleman to pave the way, Lipton wrote to the Queen in 1887: "I take the liberty of writing to inquire whether your most gracious Majesty would be pleased to accept of the largest cheese ever made [it was to weigh five tons] as a [Queen's Golden] Jubilee offering." A member of Victoria's household staff promptly replied, in effect, that...
...century ago, by virtue of her maritime and industrial supremacy, Britain had been the world's unrivaled banker, investor, manufacturer, middleman, shipper. The earnings of her exports, services and investments abroad gave her security and strength...