Word: barter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no money on the island, and trade is carried on by barter. The U.S. and British soldiers can get a chicken for two pounds of flour, three eggs for a pound of rice. They live in the farmhouses, where housewives serve their meals, wash their clothes. By day they play soccer with the island men, who are remarkably good and usually beat them. By night they gather in barns with Partisan girls, dance by lantern light to the music of accordions and guitars...
...rescue crew came in during the broadcast, having located the crew of a plane lost in the jungle. Many kinds of supplies are parachuted to lost crews: red blankets and junk jewelry for barter with the natives; playing cards and cribbage boards; Bibles, mess kits, boots, mountain rations, chewing gum, razor blades, ciga-rets, soap, canned beer...
Double & Redouble. Like a strong Maotai wine, the new bank notes flooded through China's body. But they only affected a quarter of the population of Free China. The 160 million peasants who had always lived without benefit of currency continued to barter what they had for what they could get. It was the 60 million workers, soldiers, clerks, officials, merchants and intellectuals who felt the impact of unbridled inflation...
...recent trip home.to San Francisco. The League for Service Men rummaged through their closets and bureau drawers, handed the General a 70-lb. package to take back to his post. Last fortnight the League started a campaign whose title made more sensitive San Franciscans shudder ("Buddies' Baubles for Barter"). But the campaign was popular: one week's collection took in 17,000 trinkets totaling half...
...Beveridge plan weighs Britain down so that she cannot maintain her trade, her people will face want, social security or no. They might avoid it if the U.S. continued Lend-Lease aid, thereby in effect assuming the cost of the plan. Or they might avoid it by export subsidies, barter agreements and other devices such as Germany used before the war-thereby colliding head on with U.S. policy, which has been steadily heading toward freer world markets...