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elevator manager
DCHP-2 (Nov 2016)
n. — Agriculture, Prairies, Prince Edward Island
the person in charge of buying, assessing, storing and selling grain in a particular grain elevator (see Image 1).
Type: 1. Origin — What is called an elevator manager in Canada is usually the elevator man in the US. The form is most prevalent in Canadian English compared with American English (see Chart 1). Within Canada, the expression predominates in Saskatchewan and Manitoba (see Chart 2).
See also COD-2, s.v. "elevator manager", which is marked "Cdn (also esp. hist. elevator agent)".
See also COD-2, s.v. "elevator manager", which is marked "Cdn (also esp. hist. elevator agent)".
See: elevator
Quotations
1897
Thomas Nicol of Boissevain, general merchant, was nominated as the government candidate, and James Johnson, also of Boissevain, elevator manager, as the Conservative candidate.
1898
Of course, the dishonest elevator owner and the unprincipled elevator manager will object; but people who are anxious to do business in an honest and straightforward way have nothing whatever to fear in the passage of legislation such as this.
1916
In this case one of their number should be selected as their shipping agent, or if not convenient possibly the local merchant, elevator manager, express agent or someone else in the vicinity [...]
1934
J.A. Walker, elevator manager: "The present system is disgraceful. There will have to be a change."
Charles Speers, farmer: "The law is a farce and some method of tightening up must be employed."
1949
See your local National elevator Manager -- he will advise you, and give you a copy of the "1949 Handbook on Chemical Weed Control" which will guide you to successful spraying.
1978
Elevator managers in the area are worried about filling their contracts and are bidding on the corn, driving the price up.
2007
In 1978, he went to work full time as a grain elevator manager, rising steadily through the ranks.
2013
In the past year, the average price difference has been about 79 per cent of what the long-term average indicates we should be getting. I used estimates from local elevator managers for a current average.
Some economists try to excuse the low prices by saying it's the result of the availability of so much high protein wheat across the prairies.
References
- COD-2
Images
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Image 1: Grain elevator at Hartney, MB. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Photo: Northwest
Chart 1: Internet Domain Search, 1 Aug. 2012
