Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critics of big chains Ling Warren has a ready answer: mass-buying by large chains in the past half-century has reduced the housewife's food bill by 50%, mainly by cutting out middlemen's charges. Says Warren: "The oldtime cor ner grocer was usually the underprivileged slave of intermediary dealers...
...Take the Liberty." Because Lipton "had no use for middlemen," he sailed for Ceylon in 1890 and invested in several tea plantations to supply his 300 stores. Britons were used to buying their tea in bulk; Lipton packaged it, hired sandwichmen dressed as Indians to parade through the streets advertising it, soon had everyone persuaded that tea and "Lipton's" were synonymous. By the time he moved his offices to London in the early 1890s, Lipton's name was a British household word...