Word: barter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only 15-day leaves which may be bought back are those which come at the end of a term. Some district VA's automatically at that time pay 15-day subsistence. In that case the veteran student can barter cash for an extension of subsidy at college...
...clothes except U.S. Army castoff shirts and dungarees. Okinawans may trade with the outside world only through military government, which means virtually not at all. The result has been a brisk smuggling exchange with Formosa. But even as smugglers, Okinawans are out of luck: they have little to barter except bits & pieces of equipment stolen from U.S. installations...
...weigh the alternative . . . The vicious cycle of economic nationalism would again be set in motion., The consequences would be the cumulative narrowing of markets, the further growth of high-cost protected industries, the mushrooming of restrictive controls, and the shrinkage of trade into the primitive pattern of bilateral barter." Stated positively, only by. integration could Europe get a home market big enough to support efficient mass production...
...surpluses that would be forced on the Government (now calculated at $2 billion worth by the end of the next fiscal year), the bill provided that any of these foods liable to spoilage could be used in barter deals abroad. Failing that, they could be given to the school lunch program, to charities, or to the Indians. All they had to do was come...
...land jobs face declining wages, insecure seniority, speed-up and general campaigns of terror and sabotage against our unions. But the greater part of our young people have no jobs at all, and walk the streets in search of employment, unable to secure adequate training facilities, unable to barter trained or untrained muscle and brain for over a pittance, forming a desperate reservoir of reserve labor and an unwitting weapon against the unemployed. Many of us are former servicemen, our meager veterans allotments exhausted, our post-war dreams of full employment smashed. To the ever-louder demands of our youth...