Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eliminating Middlemen. After flying next day to Wilmington, where he was mobbed by a crowd of 70,000, the President returned to Washington for his second formal press conference of the month. Making his announcements briskly, answering barbed questions with even-tempered directness, Johnson also bared a sardonic vein that recalled Harry Truman at his crustiest. Equating his own unpopularity with "prophets of doom" in the press, the President crowed: "I always get refreshed and I gain strength from going out to see the people without going through middlemen." Pursuing the issue, he told about "Uncle Ezra," who was once...
...City Markets Commissioner Samuel J. Kearing Jr.: "When the housewife finds that she has to pay 2? more for bread, her immediate reaction is that the store owner must be making more. That's unfair." Grocers agree: they in their turn point a finger at the so-called middlemen-the wholesalers, packagers and transportation types. These are indeed charging more for their services, but at the same time they themselves are paying higher labor and tax tabs...
...sharp cutback on state employment, special export credits to stimulate foreign trade, more public housing, complete overhaul of Illia's disastrous oil policy that forced Argentina to import petroleum for the first time in years, and reorganization of the country's food-distribution system to eliminate middlemen and help blunt the cost-of-living spiral...
Frequently an acquisition-minded com pany now turns to one of a growing but still little-known band of middlemen...
...these brokers; the number of mergers is rising, last year jumped to a record 1,797. The brokers - who thought up the largest share of these combinations - have a broad, objective view of the entire economy that enables them to make imaginative matches of companies in disparate industries. The middlemen may be blue-chip commercial bankers or account ants, such as Morgan Guaranty and Price Waterhouse, or management consultants or even public-relations...