Word: barter
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...rumors, blankets of lies and alarms as blinding as poison gas; provocations exploding like mines before advancing troops; flank attacks of economic reprisals, feints with threats, promises, atrocities, radio broadcasts, newspaper assaults launched simultaneously and redirected at noon and at 6 p. m. each day; a war of barter deals, whispering campaigns, mystification, currency raids, posters, mass meetings, blackouts-weapons against which military men can only point their guns in vain. Military maneuvers are but an adjunct in this weird conflict. It has its positions that must be taken, its genius, Adolf Hitler, its victims, like Dr. Benes of Czecho...
...tough Steelmaster Tom Girdler on his board. Litchfield is a great dirigible booster, a chum of Germany's Zeppeliner Dr. Hugo Eckener. In 1936 he wanted to nominate Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh for Vice President on the Republican ticket. Last spring he urged the U. S. to barter (as it soon did) surplus cotton for a stockpile of rubber which a war would shut...
...Approved legislation completing the barter transaction whereby 600,000 bales of U. S. cotton will be exchanged for British rubber...
...ever, appeared before Parliament to explain. The Hudson-Wohlthat discussions were "private" and "unofficial" and the Cabinet knew nothing about them in advance, the Prime Minister reiterated. The Secretary and the foreign trade expert were simply discussing how international confidence could be restored, and naturally they mentioned international trade, barter agreements, exchange restrictions, import quotas. But there was "nothing unusual" in the talks and certainly no loan was proposed...
...average crops. All told, world wheat production for 1939 was estimated at 3,995,000,000 bushels, exclusive of Russia and China, world consumption at about 3,970,000,000 bushels, with 1939's carryover estimated at 1,217,000,000 bushels. One European reaction: a German-Rumanian barter deal by which Rumania agreed to deliver 50,000 carloads of wheat to far-from-friendly Germany and Italy, Germany to deliver arms to her frightened, potential victim, Rumania...