Word: barter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, Japanese exports to the U.S. have improved dramatically: $188.3 million for the first six months, against $131.1 million during the same period last year. Nevertheless, Japanese pressure for removal of the embargoes is still strong. In Peking last fortnight a group of Tokyo businessmen signed a $3.6 million barter deal with the Communists, committing themselves to ship a wide assortment of goods that are now banned. In Tokyo another group announced plans to hold a Japanese trade fair in Peking next spring...
Stopgap Plan. All across the prairies, farmers dug into savings for cash to meet their taxes, payments on land and farm machinery. In Sanford, Man., the local credit union closed its books when the outstanding loans reached the legal limit. In Alberta farm towns, barter in livestock began to replace cash sales. In Saskatchewan, idle farmers swamped the National Employment Service with job applications. Last week the government offered a stopgap plan for the government to guarantee bank loans to farmers with stocks of unsalable grain. The scheme disappointed many farmers, who had hoped for straight cash advances on their...
Brazil has about 50 Meteors, obtained in 1952 by barter for 297,000 tons of cotton...
MIKOYAN: A shrewd, sharp Armenian and a wizard at trade and barter. Intellect: brilliant. Force of character: limited...
Borgnine, married and the father of a three-year-old daughter, got his first movie job in Louis de Rochemont's The Whistle at Eaton Falls, after a World War II hitch in the Navy, a stint as scene shifter and bit player at Virginia's Barter Theater. After playing supporting roles-mostly heavies-on TV for two years, he returned to Hollywood in 1951 to act his first bad man in The Mob. As Fatso Judson in From Here to Eternity, he consolidated his role as villain, made his next half-dozen pictures to match his belligerent...