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...Wallace carries some Southern states and the major candidates run a very close race, it is possible that neither the Democrat nor the Republican will get the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. Wallace has said that in this case he might attempt to barter his electoral votes for policy concessions before the electors meet Dec. 16. In fact, it is most unlikely that any candidate would treat with Wallace. Thus, the issue would be up to Congress in January. The Constitution calls for the House of Representatives to select the President, with each state delegation casting one vote...
...mark scarcely seemed to be a currency that could produce a miracle. Most of the country's war-wrecked industry still lay in ruins; the economy was torn by inflation, black markets, and such a food shortage that hungry city dwellers trekked to the country in hordes to barter their clothes and furniture for farmers' grain and potatoes. Neither gold nor a cushion of foreign exchange backed the infant mark. Yet its creation proved to be the essential underpinning of the Wirtschaftswunder that transformed West Germany into Europe's most prosperous power. By last week, as West...
...flying machines could beat dogsled competition, he charged double rates. In a few years, Wien acquired some of his less successful competitors, invited his brothers Fritz and Sigurd to join him in Alaska, and soon the Wien line's Ford Tri-Motors and Curtiss Robins were serving Barter Island on the Arctic Ocean and Eskimo villages along Norton Sound...
...middle and upper classes, raised workers' compulsory monthly savings by 50%, reduced overtime pay, cut the sugar ration by a third, and curtailed practically all major industrial programs. Only military expenditures were increased, by $140 million to an estimated $1 billion, exclusive of some of the hidden barter arrangements with the Soviet bloc. Nasser also increased the price of beer (by 50 a bottle), cigarettes (50 a pack), long-distance bus and railroad fares and admission to movies...
...most of the Senators on the subcommittee think the stamps should be free. Coles pointed out last week that many sharecroppers "live entirely outside the money economy, by barter." These people cannot raise even 50 cents--the present minimum price of the stamps...