Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middlemen. House histrionics, the 1940 political situation, and the network of Washington intrigues meant little to one suffering group of U. S. citizens. All the shipping lines could see were the angular lines of the combat areas defined by the President, wherein no U. S. ship may deliver goods of any sort on penalty of $50,000 fine, five years in prison or both (see map). Through these forbidden seas lay the eight trade routes of 92 U. S. ships, with a Government investment of $195,061,000, an annual gross revenue of $52,500,000. There was plenty...
...Production has become definitely the smaller end of U. S. business. Of the average consumer's dollar, 41? goes for goods, 59? for advertising, transportation, an involved system of middlemen, dealers, retailers...
...preserve fruits, the former to protect apples from the ravages of insects, and the latter in the drying of certain fruits such as apricots and plums. Meat is also treated chemically to preserve its red color. Many may applaud these modern methods of saving money employed by producers and middlemen, and may marvel at the wonders of modern science, but no one would think of deliberately and knowingly placing these preservative poisons into his digestive system. Nevertheless, this is what is done every day by persons who cat hamburgers, apples, dried fruits, and many other foods. Bichloride of mercury...
Dried, rolled up in drums, sold to middlemen who are noted experts in Oriental extortion, all jute is drawn by bullocks or floated down India's muddy rivers to the colonial city of Calcutta. There it is either bought by British manufacturers or made up for export by pukka ("reliable") balers. Most famed British name in the jute trade is that of Sir David Yule, an extraordinary Scotsman who died in 1928 after making a fortune of $100,000,000 in Calcutta. His dislike of things European relented enough to let him marry an Englishwoman but never to live...
...tropical refineries, hopped to a telephone with a derisive counterattack to U. S. editors. "For the last several years we have been treated to the spectacle of the domestic refiners masquerading as farmers and trying to hitchhike on the farm relief wagon, although all refiners of sugar are solely middlemen who have no more to do with production than laundrymen have to do with cotton planting,'' cried Chocolateer Staples. "For the domestic refiners to dramatize themselves as doughty defenders of the American sugar bowl is child's play. Mr. Babst, head of the largest American refinery concern...