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Get all the dirty laundry out in public: the ripped bodice of the hostile take-over, the stock jobber's filth-splattered britches, the soiled undershirt of dodgy bookkeeping, and campaign funding's reeking, horrible socks.
How to Stuff a Wild Enron P. J. O'Rourke 2002
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Get all the dirty laundry out in public: the ripped bodice of the hostile take-over, the stock jobber's filth-splattered britches, the soiled undershirt of dodgy bookkeeping, and campaign funding's reeking, horrible socks.
How to Stuff a Wild Enron P. J. O'Rourke 2002
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The jobber's 'turn', the high brokerage charges and the heavy transfer tax payable to the
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Another important part of the jobber's business is the supplying of public libraries and similar institutions.
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The jobber's work, broadly speaking, is twofold: To see that a book for which the demand is certain to be large and immediate is in the hands of all his customers promptly after publication, and to take care of all inquiries that arise throughout the country for lesser-known books.
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These apples cost the retail dealer not over $2 per barrel delivered to his store, allowance being made for jobber's profit and drayage.
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How mistaken this estimate is will appear, as we advance to something like a comprehensive survey of the dry-goods jobber's sphere.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various
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Land once advertised by Government must be put up to auction; and the jobber's victim was obliged either to purchase, or to run the risk of having a stranger sit down as the proprietor of a few hundred acres in the midst of his thousands.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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"But is there anything in all this," you are asking, "to preclude the jobber's telling the truth?"
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various
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And the jobber's problem is complicated by the folly, universally prevalent among buyers, of expecting some partiality or peculiarity of favor over their neighbors who are just as good as themselves.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various
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