Word: barter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budget, which was made on the expectation that the Burma Road would be kept open, has now been scaled down. When construction work on the Burma Road ceased, millions of dollars had been spent, but millions more will not be spent. Nearly a billion has been saved on the barter agreement with the U.S., since there is now no way to export products. The huge upkeep of Shanghai institutions, such as the courts, has been eliminated and the road-building program has ceased. On the other hand, revenue by land taxation in kind (one of the biggest social experiments...
...scarce starch, gathering only one per cent of the possible yield from corn. An attempt not so long ago to industrialize potato starch was ruined by foreign competition which our neighborly State Department encouraged. Germany, on the other hand, has stocked up with the stuff by barter, and Japan and the Dutch East Indies have plenty...
...Malcolm Barter '42, Robert A. Bastille '43, Myrton F. Beeler '44 Elihu H. Berman '44, Everett F. Bleiler '42, Stanley Brooks '44, Robert H. Brower '44, Laurence A. Brown Jr. '42, Dugald C. Burns '44, William S. Butcher '44, John Cancian...
...Friends of the Bach Organ, an enthusiastic group of patrons, continues struggling to raise the sum that Aeolian-Skinner demands for it. As to why the University has done nothing about purchasing the organ-that should perplex no one. The Corporation just isn't interested. It will barter its birthright to acquire a new scientific instrument, or some rare species of flora for the Arnold Arboretum, but when it comes to seeing the value of a thing like the Bach Organ, which reaches hundreds of people in a tangible, practical way, the Corporation draws a complete blank...
...isolationists' bargain was better, he was convinced. On the debit side, the U.S. would probably have to trade with a victorious Germany on a barter basis. All exports and imports would have to go under strict Government control. Government would have to lay an even heavier hand on private industry. The U.S. would have to learn to produce as Germany did under Hitler, and figure out a way to keep individual freedom. The U.S. would have to maintain a huge armament program. (But after all, the General told himself: "Hitler ... is mortal and he'll die some...