Word: barter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year barter agreement between the Manchurian comrades and the Russian comrades. It will swap Manchurian soybeans and other raw stuffs for Russian machinery...
Alfred E. Lyon, board chairman of Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., returned from a European trip last week with some eye-popping estimates of the market for American tobacco-providing a way could be found around the dollar shortage, possibly by barter deals (e.g., U.S. tobacco for French cigarette paper). Item: "Workingmen in England spend a quarter of their average weekly earnings of ?5 on cigarettes...
...Rattlesnake Dick" Barter was. His gang held up a Wells Fargo mule train near Shasta in 1855 and carried off $80,000 worth of gold dust...
...Americans, flown to Denmark by the U.S. Air Force, were dispatched by Virginia's Barter Theater on its first international junket. From its base in Abingdon, the Barter is far & away the most active professional repertory company touring the U.S. With a $10,000 annual grant from Virginia, the Barter is also the country's first state-subsidized theater...
...Barter, busy last week planning a summer season with the largest Equity company outside Manhattan, is still run by Robert Porterfield. Porterfield founded the group in 1932 with 21 down & out actors, $1 in cash and a policy of barter at the box office. The first season's receipts were 10% cash and 90% pigs, game and produce; it wound up with a profit of $4.30 and two barrels of jelly...