Word: barter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last August, to curb blatant cigaret trading, Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, then Deputy Military Governor, opened a legal barter center in Berlin's swank Dahlem district. Through one door, Americans swarmed with their cartons. Through another, Berliners brought their bric-a-brac, silver, china, cameras, radios, furs; the cigarets the Germans got in exchange bought food and clothing on Berlin's black market...
Fortnight ago Clay, heeding an investigating committee's advice that he was "encouraging the development of a secondary currency which threatens to become a primary currency," ordered an end to cigaret trading at the barter center by mid-January. Last week G.I.s and Berliners scurried to make their last legal trades before the deadline. But Clay had left one loophole; he had considered it impractical to ban importation of cigarets by mail. While that source remained open, cigarets would continue to be Germany's currency...
Wise Wampum. Then there was barter. A car would get you an apartment and an apartment would get you a car. A butcher in Atlanta was doing well in the house construction game-meat got him nails, flooring, plumbing fixtures when other builders were shut down tight. World
...Indians would vote at places like Davis Inlet and Northwest River. There, in good seasons, they barter their prized Labrador mink and fox pelts; in bad seasons, pick up their Government dole. Only the Indians wage a battle for existence in the virtually unmapped, unknown interior, and they are losing. Where rigor and hardship have failed to decimate them, intermarriage and the ills brought by the white man have succeeded...
Such tactics had already wrung from the Brazilians a verbal agreement to barter 3,000 tons of rubber for wheat. Juan Perón first drove Uruguay to rationing bread, then told Montevideo bakers that they could have all the wheat they wanted after he took office next month. Uruguay's elections come next fall, and Perón, who has never had much good to say for intervention, would regulate the flow of wheat to make sure that his candidate-Senator Eduardo Victor Haedo...