Word: barter
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...Thereupon young Robert Porterfield, with fire in his eye, a dollar in his pocket and 21 famished actors in his wake, went back where he came from, to Abingdon in the Virginia mountains. There he opened a summer theatre, offering tickets for 35? in cash or the equivalent in barter...
...show business, the barter idea sounded as crackbrained as opening a theatre at the bottom of a well. But farmers, housewives and hillbillies hitched up their wagons, armloaded themselves with victuals, and drove to town. All summer the actors ate hearty, and at summer's end the Barter Theatre showed a profit of $4.30 and two barrels of jelly...
...succeeding summers, the Theatre's fame spread, its personnel increased from 22 to 75, its acting orbit widened to take in a dozen towns, its ratio of barter to cash went down, from 9-to-1 to 3-to-2. Not only food, but puppies, razor blades, coffins were offered in payment. A pig traded in the first year for a season ticket produced a litter the second year and started a profitable little sideline in hams. Today, as in the beginning, neither actors nor playwrights receive any cash. To such playwrights as Robert Sherwood, Noel Coward, Maxwell Anderson...
Last week, its Abingdon season over, the Barter Theatre paid its third annual visit to Manhattan. In chain-store-fed Manhattan there were nine cash customers to one barterer. But the box office accepted a gallon of wine, tubes of toothpaste, some rayon underwear, size 36 and from Drama Critic John Anderson "a jugful of the milk of human kindness neatly skimmed." All these swelled a trifle the season's profits: $95, five barrels of jelly...
Argentina's Foreign Minister Dr. José Maria Cantilo quickly called all American diplomatic representatives in Buenos Aires for consultations. Argentinian sympathy for Germany, which was supposed to be strong, disappeared overnight. A decree curtailing the barter deals with the Nazis restored to the U. S. many of the orders for fuels, electrical appliances, chemicals, drugs, newsprint which had been coming from Europe. The War Ministry discussed discharging the German military mission which had been instructing land forces. And Argentina heartily endorsed a proposal originated by El Hombre Roosevelt but officially put forward by Panama: that the signatories...