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...these the chains claim that the real reason behind Wright Patman's proposal is the bitter hatred which chain-store efficiency breeds in competitive wholesalers and independents. This efficiency rests upon two prime pegs - ability to buy in huge quantities and elimination of numerous wholesale and other middleman functions which add markups to food costs. Such benefits can be obtained by independents through use of supermarkets or of voluntary chains...
...idea had been to shine the President's shoes for 10?, raise $1.40 more through 14 other shines, buy a bushel of wheat, make 60 loaves of bread, sell them for 10? each and a profit of $4.50-which he would then distribute to baker, miller and middleman...
...required information about the future use of the ship was not supplied. The Maritime Commission was thus able to presume that the ship might be turned to German naval purposes. It forbade the sale. For her part, Turkey suspected that the Germans wanted to play the part of the middleman in the deal, getting the middleman's rake-off in a resale to Turkey involving blocked marks held for Turkey in the German Reichsbank. Since the Turks explicitly said the ship would be used only as a floating palace for their beloved "Father," the sale to Turkey was sanctioned...
...home. Then he noticed that Jewish onion buyers were having a horrid time in the onion market on Pier 17. Onion salesmen were mostly boisterous Irishmen who loved to pull down Jewish derbies and yank Jewish beards. Having neither beard nor derby, Ben Balish set himself up as a middleman in onions, soon did magnificently. But a truant officer caught him and young Balish had to bribe him $10 a week not to report his absence from school...
...bootleg arms to a belligerent is to ship them through a partisan or unscrupulous middleman nation. Last week President Cardenas of Mexico proudly announced that, so far, from Mexico to Spain's Reds had gone $1,465,658 worth of war material...