Word: barter
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...prewar barter deals with Germany were all small, bothersome, profitless. On an oil deal, the U.S. exporters got 8,000,000 mouth organs; for an auto body press, 200,000 canaries; for a movie, one live hippopotamus...
...lips over the information that the French Indo-China Government was building a "commercial" seaplane base eight miles below Saigon-only 675 miles from Singapore. Russia added to the encouragement it has given Japan's hotheads in the Non-Aggression Pact by signing a new $14,000,000 barter agreement (last year's Russo-Japanese trade was less than $2,000,000). Also Puppet Ruler Wang Chingwei of Nanking left for Tokyo to be received in splendor by Emperor Hirohito. His visit was said to be connected with the attempted formation of a "peace bloc" including Germany, Italy...
...addition economic collaboration was well under way. A barter system for foodstuffs and many other commodities was doing big business between France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-and Hungary and Rumania were reported about to join up. With a lid artificially clamped on the prices of French securities, Germans were buying heavily into French banks and business houses. It was announced that French and German insurance companies would shortly fix a standard rate schedule among themselves...
...Barter of the Boston Globe: "The Plympton Street Indians looked plenty flashy . . . in practice . . . yesterday . . . at least 21 runs better than the Bird Hunters...
...encirclement" of Turkey, persuading such satrap States as Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria to make economic agreements with Turkey. Cut off from her best markets for tobacco and grains, Turkey had to accept the best arrangements she could get, and for the past month negotiations have been proceeding for a barter agreement with Germany. Such Nazi agreements have a way of corrupting by persuasion and bribery a nation's business element: they preceded German occupation of most of the Balkan countries. But in Ankara Franz von Papen is dealing with a tougher character than any other statesman in the Balkans...