Word: barter
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...modern contest is fought not merely with military weapons of the old and new types, but with economic explosives as well. Organizational devices-are now directed toward the mobilization of the entire resources of the nation against forces aiming to annihilate or subdue us. Export-import control, systems of barter, blocked currencies, manipulated exchanges and credit instruments are types of the means in question; and these devices in turn rest upon administrative management of men and materials...
Professor Leach's cogent presentation of the case for militant aid cannot be disposed of so easily as Professor Elliott's childish toy-soldier complex. The Law Professor said that if England is defeated, the Nazis will penetrate South American via the barter route, following up economic with political infiltration, and setting up puppet regimes in state after state until the Panama Canal is threatened and the United States is left helpless, alone, and fatally vulnerable...
Back from the Franco-Prussian War came ambitious Max Graf. Amid much barter and little romance, he and stolid, pious Tessa were married. She bore eleven children, worked stubbornly until her legs, like many peasant women's, became horribly varicose. Her husband's bakery flourished as the region became a resort for Wagner, Liszt, the mad King Ludwig...
...bootstraps with anesthetic, money-wasting measures, only to get from one hole into a bigger one. ... It will be futile 'for the U. S. to enter the war for she will be too late." ^ The U. S. must prepare to cooperate "economically and spiritually" with Germany on a "barter basis-the only basis Germany now knows, because she was forced to employ the barter system." Added Prophet Merten on a hint from wife Zelah: "I beg, after consideration, that you mention my connections with the American Embassy in Berlin only on your social pages, in a separate story, rather...
...late August of this year the President saw fit to send fifty destroyers to England in exchange for a few naval bases. The destroyers have made their journey and have forgotten. Whether the barter was constitutional has never been settled upon by any branch of the government except the executive. The Congress, supposedly the representative body of the nation, had to accept the trade. Mr. Roosevelt seemed to ignore the Neutrality Law which definitely states that the United States is a neutral nation and will not give any military aid to a warring country. Congress passed this act and Congress...