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...also knew that the oil would cost him $1.75 from the same source, for reasons beyond his control. Since oil was commanding $2 per barrel elsewhere at the moment, he felt he was serving his Indiana Standard stockholders well in helping to guarantee to Sinclair, as cunningly inevitable middleman, a profit which Indiana Standard could equal in turn. "It was a good buy," he said...
...miners retort that lignite delivered in Berlin for $5.20 a ton retails for $9 a ton, which they claimed is too great a profit for the middleman. They therefore suggested that their claims could be met from this source without raising the price to the consumer. But the middlemen have to pay for unloading at the freight yards, transportation to the selling point and unloading there, not to mention high overhead cost...
...restaurant table cloths, can and do afford Cartoonists Bud Fisher and George McManus great pain for the free meals they thus pilfer, the checks they thus get cashed. It is no longer only the artist that is put under contract but his pen- children, who are copyrighted by the middleman. The Katzenjammer Kids sprang from a fertile organism called Rudolph Dirks, and have been signed by three foster-fathers since. The Republican elephant, Democratic donkey and Tammany tiger were originated-how lately and by whom? Answer: Th. Nast, 60 years...
...Miller & Co. Inc., middleman for real estate mortgages, went into involuntary receivership at Manhattan last week. It has accepted mortgages against 150 structures in 58 cities and 16 states, and sold bonds against such mortgages to 25,000 customers...
This is the season when crop reporters are at their busiest. They are the gentry who flit about the countryside gathering data on agricultural conditions, data useful to farmer, middleman, speculator and consumer. Accuracy, speed and skillful surmise count mightily in the interplay of production, consumption and profits. Let him profit who best knows how, is the attitude of the Department of Agriculture, great compiler of pertinent statistics...