Word: dicker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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STEEL Maybe . . The West Coast heard some lively news last week: U.S. Steel was ready to dicker with the Defense Plant Corp. to buy or lease the $200,000,000 Geneva steel plant near Provo. Utah...
...President, Benjamin F. Fairless, as Western steel users prepared to meet this week in Salt Lake City to discuss the postwar fate of Western steel. In letting out the news, Fairless gave them a surprising new item to chew over. Big Steel, he said, is also ready to dicker with DPC to buy or lease the $110,000,000 steel plant at Fontana, Calif., built and operated by Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser...
...would mean, at first, a drastic write-down in the price for Geneva. But the West would get cheaper steel than it did before the war. As this expanded the market, the Government would get more of its cash out of Geneva. Many Westerners feel that Big Steel might dicker on such a proposition...
...National Institute of Arts and Letters in New York City: "The peace we seem to be making will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping-a peace, in brief, of factual situations, a peace without moral purpose or human intent, a peace of dicker and trade about the facts of commerce, the facts of banking, the facts of transportation, which will lead us where the treaties made by dicker and trade have always...
...this year, A.H.P. has gobbled up seven companies, may still top its '41 record, when it picked up nine. But last week kinetic Mr. Brush had his mathematical mind firmly fixed on the postwar world: he had just completed a dicker with Metropolitan Life for a $7,500,000 loan to rebuild, reorient and expand further his scattered $8,400,000 plant...