Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...iron curtain that worries me. It's the green curtain that comes down every morning between me and my cabbage." In the argot of workaday Rome, the green curtain is the term used to describe the veil of mystery behind which the shrewd middlemen in the city's huge wholesale vegetable market operate to send the prices of simple foodstuffs soaring...
...roll into the Rome market, and the morning hours when the loads are distributed among the city's retailers. But the prices soar sometimes to triple those paid the wholesaler, thanks to the manipulations of the few insiders. They are the "captains" and the "queens" of the market, middlemen who tightly control prices but seldom keep the food in their own possession for more than half an hour. A wholesaler or retailer who dares to defy his captain or queen may find himself boycotted throughout the market, or, failing that, stuck with a stock of spoiled potatoes or worm...
COFFEE PRICES, rising since last August, are jumping up again. With price boosts by middlemen, General Foods Corp. (Maxwell House, Sanka), Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn) and other big roasters are hiking prices between 2? and 4? per Ib. wholesale. Total price increase since August...
...important new factor today is the speculator willing to take a flyer on the works of a young unknown. Tempted by such examples as Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27), whose canvases in eight years have jumped in average price from $50 to more than $1,000, dealers, brokers and middlemen are buying paintings, hoping for a "beau coup" (lucky strike). Occasionally art dealers buy up an artist's whole studio full of works, salt them away until the artist's work brings a premium...
...Agriculture Commission would have to investigate the fundamental insecurity of the farmer and his lack of bargaining power against industry and the consumer, overproduction and uneconomic use of marginal lands, the problem of too many farmers, and the inefficient system of distribution that allows middlemen to capture most of the food dollar...