The land-jobbers were ever on the alert to buy up these tracts at a few shillings an acre, not with any intention of settling upon or improving them, but solely for the purpose of holding them for an increased value.
The Associated Jobbers then carried the case before the newly-created Railroad Commission and obtained concessions amounting to fifty per cent.
On May 2d the Executive Committee[45] of the Associated Jobbers passed resolutions discouraging any effort to take advantage of San Francisco's plight, and pledging to help restore her splendid commercial prestige; whereupon Samuel T.
The delegates from San Pedro and Wilmington refused to go on until the Associated Jobbers had pledged themselves to obtain for the harbor districts, after consolidation was effected, the same freight advantages enjoyed by Los Angeles.
Law and the Abbe Dubois, so interested in the safety of the stock-jobbers (without whom the paper must have fallen at once), supported M.
One day the Marechal de Villars traversed the Place Vendome in a fine coach, loaded with pages and lackeys, to make way for which the mob of stock-jobbers had some difficulty.
The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it.
Dealers who had classified themselves as jobbers or importers had gone into the retail classification in order to evade the limitations of profit allowed jobbers, and were limiting their sales to lots of twenty-five bags or fewer.
Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Many jobbersnow pack brands of their own, besides handling the Arbuckle brands.
While the stockjobbers are talking in the first scene of act II, the coffee boys are crying, "Fresh Coffee, gentlemen, fresh coffee?
The next recourse was to the so-called "regular trade-channels"—the jobbers and retailers.
Occasionally jobbers made purchases, and here and there a jeweler or hardware dealer offered the watches for sale.
The problem thus concerns at the same time both the small local shipper or dealer, as against a more formidable provincial competitor; and also the remote jobbers as a class against the whole group of local middlemen.
In the St. Louis Business Men's League case[133] the Pacific coast jobbers complained that the large distributing houses in the Middle West thus invaded their territory.
If the carload rate be relatively too low, with reference to the rate on small lots, the jobbers near the market will be upbuilt and the jobbers at a distance cannot compete.
This situation, it is apparent, enabled Mobile jobbersto buy goods in New Orleans and actually lay them down in Montgomery for less than the freight charges to the Montgomery dealers who were on the spot.
The trunk lines insisted upon such specially low charges on small shipments as would enable manufacturers and jobbers in the East to hold their markets in remote districts in competition with rivals in the Middle West.
The rivalries of jobbers and middlemen in different cities are inevitably borne into the offices of traffic managers.
The St. Louis jobbers were at once brought into keen rivalry with merchants in North Atlantic states, served by coastwise steamship lines.
Inasmuch as a very large proportion of groceries and other supplies went by box or package, this reduction accorded on carload shipments greatly benefited the jobbers all through the West and South.
St. Louis lines, acting for local jobberswhose goods came from New York, might not charge more at any point in the aggregate than the total rate from the same initial city which applied by way of the Gulf steamers.
When Chicago and New York jobbers each strive to invade the other's field, the extra revenue to the carriers may be considerable; but it is the people who ultimately pay the freight.
Manufacturers and jobberssend men out to present the merits of their goods, but their sole idea of a 'smart' man is one whose sales are large.
Every little cross-roads store had its 5 and 10 cent counters, and manufacturers and jobbers cut in prices to cater to it.
I have seen a great many jobbers who had spent time and money trying to get control of all the trade in their own city, but I never saw one who did not finally give up in disgust.
He will not buy of the home jobbers at the same price, for he feels that he is building up his competitor.
I presume you can; we make no money on cartridges; neither do thejobbers here or anywhere else.
The decline is made to a few jobbers, and they at once start out their men to give it to the retailers, and to use it as a bait, and when other jobbers learn it they combine to squeeze the price down so that all can get it.
Jobbers in the inland cities were cleaned out of stock they looked upon as dead and worthless.
The Villany of Stock-jobbers detected, and the Causes of the late Run upon the Bank and Bankers discovered and considered.
This pamphlet was followed by the one mentioned in the text, and that again almost immediately by The Villany of Stock-jobbers detected; and the Cause of the late Run upon the Banks and Bankers discovered and considered.
The range of the jobbers speedily extended itself beyond the comparatively narrow field presented by the funds.
Modern jobbers will doubtless read these records with a sigh for the glory of departed times, just as a schoolboy bitterly regrets that he was not born in the days of chivalry.
After that," Volpatte went on, "those layers of soft-jobbers fed me up still more.
The tulip-jobbers speculated in the rise and fall of the tulip stocks, and made large profits by buying when prices fell, and selling out when they rose.
In Paris also the jobbers strove to create a tulipomania.
But the number of robberies and assassinations did not diminish; no sympathy was shewn for rich jobbers when they were plundered.
In the year 1636 tulips were publicly sold in the Exchange of London, and the jobbers exerted themselves to the utmost to raise them to the fictitious value they had acquired in Amsterdam.
The market-price has been made for me by the jobbers yesterday and today.
It's been hard enough, I can tell you, these last few years, with the big jobbers cutting the hearts out of the small traders.
Brokers and jobbers carry on stock broking on the stock exchange and in the open market, the former (theoretically at least) on account of third persons and the latter on their own account.
This slowness is largely due to the failure of jobbers and merchants to appreciate the advantages of the clearance system and to enlarge its membership by insisting that their own banks join and co-operate in the plan.
Do you tell me that you know him better than the brokers and jobbers in the City?
He learned to know where to place his clients' money, which of the jobbers would make a price in New Zealands, and which would touch nothing but American rails, which might be trusted and which shunned.
Stuff and nonsense," yelled the office jobbers in a chorus.
Then there was a new manual training school about to be added to the public school system at this time, and the contract for building was to be let, when the mayor threw a bomb into the midst of the old-time jobbers at the city council.
As to how creditors are defrauded in hundreds of instances, the following is a fair example: A retail shoe dealer in a middle western state went into bankruptcy owing several eastern jobbers several thousand dollars.
Being limited in quantity, and therefore incapable of contraction or inflation at the will of jobbers in stocks or politics, they will answer better for a measure of values.
Manufacturers and jobbers of certain products also find it necessary to store large quantities of their wares at distributing centers that they may promptly supply the trade.
There are many large firms in Germany, bothjobbers and manufacturers, that are striving to be progressive.
There are a large number of small manufacturers and jobbers in France.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jobbers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
