Word: middlemen
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...took 40 days from Pittsburgh to St. Louis; it took longer being towed back. The Pittsburgh middlemen squinted at Shreve's furs, offered him small change. Ignoring the tradition that Pittsburgh middlemen monopolized the fur trade with the East, Shreve loaded his furs on wagons, carted them over the snowy Alleghenies to Philadelphia, where he sold them at a fat profit...
...Russia, Germany's wily Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen had proposed to the British Ambassador that Britain stop fighting and join Germany against the Soviet Union. Last week from Ankara came word that Herr von Papen and friends were still plugging peace hard, through U.S. and other middlemen...
...complain that they are blackmailed by a swarm of food speculators who sell them illegal supplies when normal stocks are gone, thereafter force them to go on doing business with them or be handed over to the police. Although retailers are licensed, wholesalers are not; as many as ten middlemen in some cases may pile up their profits in the dark. The London Daily Herald has unearthed a nest of "speakeasy" restaurants dealing in illicit food supplies...
...nothing she loves better than to read a book or give a lecture on the evils of money as it is administered today. According to her sister, Mrs. Frederick Sundt, of Seattle, Mrs. Milburn has it in for Montagu Norman and other bankers and thinks that they, as middlemen, should be eliminated. Four years ago Mrs. Milburn joined the Greenback Party, which advocates the withdrawal of all gold and silver certificates, substitution of paper money backed not by bullion but by "faith." She was listed in the The Honest Money Year Book of 1040. This year, when the party decided...
City of unorthodox booms is Shanghai, a paradise of moneychangers and middlemen. Throughout Depression I Shanghai built itself the tallest buildings outside the Americas, tripled land values on its river-washed Bund (the International Settlement's downtown) in seven years. Last year, its suburbs full of Japanese soldiers, Shanghai started another and less healthy boom, still booming. Factories, upcountry traders, panicky Chinese moved into the International Settlement for safety. Since no passport control blocks entry to the Settlement, refugees from all the world's political hotspots fled there-Czechs, Poles, German and Austrian Jews. Country View Apartments, aptly...