Word: middleman
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...material to the final product at delivery. Since some articles pass through many more hands than do others, certain branches of industry must inevitably labor under a serious disadvantage. The "turnover" tax, moreover, would encourage the formation of combinations, to the exclusion of the small manufacturer and the middleman; it would tax concerns regardless of how profitable they are it is, therefore, not adapted to American business conditions. The retail sales tax, on the other hand, eliminates this difficulty by proposing to collect revenue upon the product at the final sale only. But from its very nature it is open...
...held and still hold the unorganized farmer in their hands. He cannot set the price for his article when he lives alone and is unorganized. Our industrial program includes a state mill and a state bank, both of which have proved very successful. By eliminating the profit of the middleman and the miller we have been able to sell wheat cheaper and pay more for it, and we've broken up the power of the banking and milling interests in North Dakota...
...matter of common knowledge that the middleman's profits are responsible for the high cost of living. Here is a chance to apply a college education to practical purposes and solve at one and the same time the Seniors' problem, the Freshmen's problem, and the problem of the middleman. The Student Council should each year appoint a day on which Seniors and Freshmen should assemble in the Yard, whereupon mahogany desks and brass bedsteads might start upon another cycle to the mutual benefit of erstwhile and henceforth owners...
...they fail. "To sell a pound of nails or a package of coffee," says Mr. Copeland, "appears so simple that the problems of buying, selling, stock-handling, accounting and managing are over-looked. The general public, on its side, shows its ignorance of these problems by talking lightly of middleman elimination. Although twenty to thirty-five percent. of the price paid by the consumer does goes to the retailer, the services of the latter are far from being dispensable. It is much easier to say that his profit is too high than to show how his expenses can be reduced...
With a given amount of tutoring to be done, it is, desirable that as much as possible, be done by students, and that it be done directly, with no commissions to middleman, inasmuch as it costs the student--who really does the work in any case--nothing. But it lacks the funds to perfect the system of notes, formulas, memory-aids and the whole machine-shop of tutorial pills and capsules; and therefore lacks the prestige of other establishments. Each additional man who turns to it for a tutoring place, will help himself financially, and the Secretary in University...