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...People Barter. Here & there, people can buy things in shops for money...
...large, Marshal Tito's land has no use for coin or currency, store or tavern. The people barter. "My dollars," wrote Pribichevich, "are just dirty pieces of paper...
Where food is sufficient, the biggest lack is clothing. For silk, rayon or nylon from damaged Allied parachutes, the people will trade almost anything they have. When the peasants hear the roar of Allied transport planes, they hurry into queues before the local barter post, offer corn, potatoes, eggs, poultry, goats, sheep and calves for strips of parachute fabric collected by the Partisan Army...
There is no money on the island, and trade is carried on by barter. The U.S. and British soldiers can get a chicken for two pounds of flour, three eggs for a pound of rice. They live in the farmhouses, where housewives serve their meals, wash their clothes. By day they play soccer with the island men, who are remarkably good and usually beat them. By night they gather in barns with Partisan girls, dance by lantern light to the music of accordions and guitars...
...rescue crew came in during the broadcast, having located the crew of a plane lost in the jungle. Many kinds of supplies are parachuted to lost crews: red blankets and junk jewelry for barter with the natives; playing cards and cribbage boards; Bibles, mess kits, boots, mountain rations, chewing gum, razor blades, ciga-rets, soap, canned beer...