Word: barter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since barter has its limitations, more often the G.I.s sell for cash. Informal G.I. markets have sprung up around the Arc de Triomphe, in the Place Pigalle, under the Eiffel Tower, in bistros, restaurants, around jeeps pausing in traffic jams. These sales give soldiers enough money to buy at Paris prices...
...direct loans, the U.S. would remain in a position to call the tune for each debtor. The other nations, mindful of the effects of the whimsical U.S. lending tariff policy of the prewar decade, might well prefer exchange controls and bilateral barter agreements among themselves to the acceptance of "humiliating" credit terms, and those loans which do not "fit their internal needs and their sense of national dignity...
...People Barter. Here & there, people can buy things in shops for money...
...large, Marshal Tito's land has no use for coin or currency, store or tavern. The people barter. "My dollars," wrote Pribichevich, "are just dirty pieces of paper...
Where food is sufficient, the biggest lack is clothing. For silk, rayon or nylon from damaged Allied parachutes, the people will trade almost anything they have. When the peasants hear the roar of Allied transport planes, they hurry into queues before the local barter post, offer corn, potatoes, eggs, poultry, goats, sheep and calves for strips of parachute fabric collected by the Partisan Army...