Word: barter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Housemasters will continue their new "barter system" for admitting freshmen to the Houses in the future. Dean Watson announced yesterday, because the Class of 1958 has been distributed more equitably than any other freshman class...
...Received, from the Department of Justice, an opinion interpreting U.S. law as prohibiting sale or barter of surplus farm commodities to Russia or other Soviet-dominated countries...
...Colombia, in its first sizable deal with the Reds, signed up with some visiting East German drummers to barter $10 million in coffee and tobacco for light machinery. Said Pedro Bernal, manager of the Coffee Exporters' Association: "Now let's see whether we can open markets for coffee in the real Iron Curtain countries...
...Buttermilk. Once a barter agreement has paved the way, the Germans have made the best of it with service and salesmanship. "If you inquire in France, the U.S., Great Britain and Germany about buying machinery," says a Caracas businessman, "the Frenchman doesn't answer, the U.S. company sends a catalogue, the Briton assures you his product is the best, and two Germans show up and ask, 'Where do we put it?' " In capitals and backlands throughout Latin America, German salesmen in belted jackets, speaking good Spanish or Portuguese, take pride in a three-word motto: "Sell, sell...
...logical Marxist solution for his problems last week. Since the government was buying art for a projected modern museum, said Siqueiros, why not let artists pay their income taxes with their work instead of their money? When the Finance Minister okayed the proposal, Rivera was the first to barter a $3,600 painting for his tax bill. But anti-Communist Rufino Tamayo, whose work is selling like hot cakes, said haughtily: "I prefer to pay my taxes in cash. I have no paintings to spare...