Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry, but it gave him the funds to begin major investments in real estate in mid-Depression. One day he heard that Western Union wanted to build on a choice block near the financial district, so he bought a corner building as a toe hold, quietly worked out a deal with Western Union to pick up the rest of the property on percentage. His profit...
...through the service secretaries-"legalized bottleneck," said the President; 2) Congress could, in effect, veto Pentagon decisions to transfer major combat functions of the services-''endorsement of duplication and standpattism," said Ike; and 3) each member of the Joint Chiefs and each service secretary had license to deal with Congress "on his own initiative" -"legalized insubordination" to the Commander-in-Chief...
Gromyko wrapped up the deal by naming an eight-man delegation of Soviet scientists that ranged from Sputnik Authority Evgeny Federov through Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Nikolai Semenov to nonscientific Semyon K. Tsarapkin, one of Gromyko's oldtime U.N. scowlers. They will meet with the British and French delegates and the U.S. trio, composed of University of California Physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, Bell Telephone Laboratories' Executive Vice President James Fisk and Caltech Physicist Robert Bacher...
Bland Explanation. To win a vote of confidence, U Nu needed the help of the 45 votes held by the National United Front, a collection of Communist and other left-wing parties. Two days before Parliament met, U Nu made his deal with the left-wingers by ordering high-treason charges dropped against two Communist Deputies who had been in jail a year awaiting trial. His bland explanation: both men had said they were sorry they had done wrong and had promised not to commit treason again. With U Nu's victory assured, the tension of the past weeks...
...plush offices in the new Tishman Building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, striding down a corridor on his way for some "belly-to-belly selling" of a businessman interested in setting up a manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico. "We have learned," he says, "that the U.S. businessmen we deal with today are as different from the plantation and sugar-mill colonials as we ourselves are from malaria-ridden serfs...