Word: barter
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...battered Army campaign hat on his head climbed aboard the Houston. This was Chief Olo-Benanya of the San Blas come to call on Chief Franklin Roosevelt of the U. S. Chief Olo-Benanya spoke no English and Chief Roosevelt spoke no Chibchan. Nevertheless, the Indian managed to barter some spears and a handful of sharks' teeth for several cartons of cigarets from Mr. Roosevelt. This deal accomplished, the Presidential party sailed up the squally Caribbean, planning to land at Charleston, S. C. and be back in Washington by the middle of this week...
...than the one made at Paris by Premier Laval and Captain Eden which he turned down (TIME, Aug. 26), and the one before that made by Eden in Rome which raised such a rumpus when the House of Commons learned that this handsome young man had proposed prematurely to barter away part of the British Empire (TIME, July...
...denounced by one of the signatories at the end of the fourth year, runs indefinitely. It was accompanied last week by important pourparlers for Franco-Russian cooperation, economic as well as military. The French and Soviet general staffs will shortly exchange key experts. More important, France contemplates a colossal barter in which she expects to take Soviet oil, ore and minerals in exchange for 3½ billion francs ($231,000,000) worth of French rails, railway rolling stock and road-making machinery necessary to put in prime condition the strategic railways and highways of Russia...
Thus the peace bluff of Adolf Hitler was officially called. His retort, based on canny intuition that the Great Powers would not fight, was to seize even more than they had offered to barter. Instead of limited German rearmament, Der Reichsführer proclaimed unlimited rearmament, decreed compulsory recruiting for an army of over half a million Germans and again professed peace (TIME, March...
...California Authority for Money (CAM), which would issue script to facilitate barter between CAP and CAL, and bonds to acquire factories and land...