Word: dickered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curtiss-Wright's new projects off to a flying start, Chairman Vaughan last fortnight hustled to England, reportedly to dicker for the U.S. rights on the De Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd.'s gas turbine engine...
...five-months-old dicker with the striking Air Lines Pilots Association and International Association of Machinists (original cause: the firing of a pilot), National Airlines, Inc. showed "immaturity and lack of responsibility," said a presidential emergency fact-finding board. It recommended the immediate rehiring of the 445 striking employees...
...I.T.U. Boss Randolph hustled to New York to dicker, featherbedding also became an issue. The New York publishers wanted to kill the costly "bogus rule"* that the I.T.U. had been writing into contracts for more than 40 years. At the New York Herald Tribune, the touchy bogus question brought trouble last week. When 30 lobster-shift (2 a.m. shift) printers defied the foreman and left work to check up on the backlog of bogus matter, they were fired. Later in the day, the union got them reinstated. But there was little doubt that the publishers' next campaign would...
Hollywood, after turning its pockets inside out during the war, spent less than $2 million for Broadway shows. Top sales: Christopher Blake ($300,000, plus extras) and Another Part of the Forest ($250,000, plus extras). Top dicker: Annie Get Your...
...TIME, Dec. 30). Kaiser complained that this was a rabbit punch to his own Fontana steel plant, which supplied Consolidated. Presumably, Consolidated would now buy from its new owner, Big Steel. About a month ago, Kaiser again felt the hot breath of Big Steel on his neck. Through a dicker with four western railroads, Big Steel had won a $4-40-a-ton reduction in the freight rate on steel shipped from Geneva to the coast...