Word: dicker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week General Electric completed a dicker to take over, from Du Pont, the management of the $347,000,000 Government-owned plant at Hanford, Wash. Although the three great piles in the Hanford desert were built to produce plutonium for bombs, their byproduct is unharnessed energy in enormous quantities. G.E. will run the piles at cost plus $1. Its profit will be in priceless experience...
...time, through a dicker with China National Tea Corp., Hunt & Co. controlled all the tea in China...
Something Furious. Despite Phil Murray's advance notice that he would be happy to dicker, despite the steel companies' implied hint that they might be willing to raise wages if the Government would only let them raise prices, both sides girded furiously for battle. For the next few weeks it would be fought with handouts...
Meanwhile, negotiations languished. Moderate, socialistic Prime Minister Sjahrir had to face a plenary session of his government's 240-man "National Committee," convince extremists that it was still worth-while to dicker with the Dutch for self-government under a United Nations trusteeship, with guaranteed independence to follow later. Even if Sjahrir could swing his Committee, the Dutch were not likely to agree to such a plan...
...instrument of foreign policy? One New York banker who commutes to Washington thought such use long overdue. Said he: "If I were permitted to characterize our credits over past years in one four-letter word, I'd use the word 'Gaps.' " He explained that U.S. diplomats dicker, and U.S. credit agencies lend, without much connection between them. Thus the diplomats often find they lack a bargaining weapon suited to everyday use in diplomatic give and take...