Word: middleman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...century ago, by virtue of her maritime and industrial supremacy, Britain had been the world's unrivaled banker, investor, manufacturer, middleman, shipper. The earnings of her exports, services and investments abroad gave her security and strength...
...angry and disturbed" over stories that Margaret had talked her into anything. Said Don: "Some people have an aversion to child actresses, but I haven't. Nor do I have a personal aversion to Margaret, except when she interferes with my marriage . . . I'm the middleman all the way through in this case. I can't do battle with a little child. But there's just so much a man can take...
...Marshall Plan nations from spending U.S. dollars on nonessential or luxury items; 2) keep tabs on everything going to the Soviet Union or its satellites. But the export wall was full of loopholes. It would still be possible, as in war years, to ship to a Latin American middleman, who could transship to one of the affected countries...
...Shoot the middleman...
...veteran editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, biographer of Thoreau and Whitman, and one of the original judges for the Book-of-the-Month Club, Henry Seidel Canby has been a proficient and even an eminent middleman of letters. His reflections about U.S. life & literati are noteworthy. This book includes two revised but previously published works-one on the '905, The Age of Confidence (1934), one on Yale (1936) and a newly composed section on U.S. literature. The author refers to himself as sensitive. He is certainly observant and shrewd...