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...bottling, casing and four years' storage are estimated to bring the cost up to about $7.50 per case. Taxes of about $11 make it $18.50. Wholesalers and retailers must cover operating expenses and license fees, but what happens is that every one along the line from distiller through middleman to retailer figures his profits not on whiskey costs alone but on cost plus taxes doubled and redoubled...
...about $1.50 to make a case of whiskey (three gallons). Barreling, bottling, labeling and aging add about $6. The present Federal tax of $1.10 (which will probably be upped) a gallon adds $3.30. To this total production cost of $10.80 a case must be added the mark-up of middleman and distributor. For some time to come the retail price of reasonably good whiskey will be around $30 a case. Testifying in Washington last week, distillers said they could retail blended whiskey for $1.50 a quart but they did not specify the quality. Most whiskey men believe that...
...Miles Middleman. This was bad news for British and French businessmen in North China. Their colleagues in Manchuria had got a taste of Japan's policy of a nominal "open door" with a thousand petty obstructions for foreign businessmen. Last week two of the oldest British firms in China (Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp.) began to close their Manchurian branches. Fearing a duplication in North China, the British Minister to China, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson called on the Japanese Charge d'Affaires in Peiping, Shoichi Xakayama, and offered himself as middleman in direct negotiations between...
...parallel developments which merit special attention. The first is the increasing importance attached to the office of Fund Agent in each new Senior class. In the forty-three years experience of the Yale Fund, the Class Agent has come to share equal significance with the Class Secretary as middleman between the alumnus and his college. There are plentiful indications that such an evolution is taking place at Harvard...
...reputation for the grand manner with his wife's millions. She divorced him for presenting her with "kings & emperors one day, slaps the next," married his cousin, Duc de Talleyrand. "Boni'' wrote two books, How I Discovered America and The Art of Being Poor, worked as middleman between auctioneers & wealthy foreigners. His title, traced by him to the year 1000, by genealogists to a Toulouse lawyer who appropriated and revived it under the reign of Napoleon I, is omitted by the Almanack de Gotha. Pet of the Press, he fell into his last illness when...