Word: barter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barter of the Boston Globe: "The Plympton Street Indians looked plenty flashy . . . in practice . . . yesterday . . . at least 21 runs better than the Bird Hunters...
...encirclement" of Turkey, persuading such satrap States as Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria to make economic agreements with Turkey. Cut off from her best markets for tobacco and grains, Turkey had to accept the best arrangements she could get, and for the past month negotiations have been proceeding for a barter agreement with Germany. Such Nazi agreements have a way of corrupting by persuasion and bribery a nation's business element: they preceded German occupation of most of the Balkan countries. But in Ankara Franz von Papen is dealing with a tougher character than any other statesman in the Balkans...
...concerned the consequences of a German victory over Britain. Only 8.5% of FORTUNE'S businessmen believed the U.S. could do business with a Hitlerized Europe on a pre-war basis; another 5.3% thought the nation could get along with Hitler without worrying much about attack, by switching to barter methods. A whopping 84.1% foresaw danger in degrees ranging up to outright disaster: 36.5% believed that the U.S. would have to adopt barter methods and maintain a costly military program; 22.6% believed the nation would have to arm at top speed for an eventual war with the Nazis; 25% believed...
...were given a mud hut to live in. The humidity is great. . . . There is not a vegetable in the place, not a potato. A few eggs can be bought by barter...
Cinemactors Cregar and Muni are inspired Frenchmen who finally overcome all difficulties (except the script) in their effort to barter furs. Typical Muni walk: "through dense woods, along fast-flowing streams, across the myriad lakes of Canada, pushing farther north than any white man had ever gone before." Typical Muni talk: "Le bon Dieu. . . . This place for look-not talk...