Word: barter
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...when forced out by Col. Marmaduke Grove who became the new Head of the State (TIME, June 20). Lying low as a leopard, Don Carlos did not contradict rumors that he would let Col. Grove send him to Moscow as Chilean Ambassador. In Moscow his job would be to barter Chilean nitrates for Soviet petroleum. But instead of leaving for Moscow, Don Carlos circulated among army officers of his acquaintance...
...long. . . . He told of battling floods . . . chopping his way through a jungle with a machete. . . . His companions sickened and faced starvation. In spite of the fact that his feet were rotting from the humidity he walked 18 miles until he found some Indians with whom he was able to barter cloth, fish hooks and soap for some beans, corn and mandioca root to feed his party...
...exhibited an angular confection entitled "Exotique" (see cuts) that only lacked Pablo Picasso's acute sense of color to be exactly like the great Spanish experimenter's latest abstractions. Depression caused one novelty in this year's show. Artists loudly announced that this year they would barter their pictures for food, rent, clothing, or what had you. Haberdashers and dentists were first to strike bargains. On the opening night Artist Baylinson closed with Tailor S. Hindleman-a drawing for a spring suit. Dentist Joseph R. Horn scoured the gallery, tentatively selected 30 pictures, waited for toothaches...
...irritating step in economic warfare which will tend to destroy friendly international relations. . . . It is an unwarranted invasion by the Government into the field of private business. . . . It is a return to the obsolete system of barter and involves discrimination and retaliation. . . . It is arbitrary and unfair. It nullifies our existing trade treaties. So protesting vigorously against it, I speak for 800,000 businessmen of the United States...
...heraldic crests adorn the converted livery stable which serves as its recitation hall or the regenerated Chautauqua hall which is its chapel. Professor's get part of their meagre salaries in the form of peaches, potatoes, hams, or firewood from the college farm, and a complicated system of barter enables a farmer to pay his son's bill with so many quarts worth of tuition...