Word: barterer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley, by Gerald Carson. The biography of the greatest medical quack ever to barter colored water for cash tells a wild, but true, story in an appropriately cornball style...
...figure is low. John R. Brinkley, a small, dapper, goateed North Carolinian, who seemed certain that society rests upon a thick substratum of cement-heads, combined elements of the demagogue and the religious faker, but above all he was a medical quack-perhaps the greatest quack ever to barter colored water for cash. Author Carson tells the story in a slapdash, cornball style that suits his subject well...
...state-owned trading agency, is so deep in debt that prohibitive taxes are being levied on oil companies to rake up new funds. In fact, Toure's treasury is so strapped for cash that it has not even been able to keep its commitments to its Communist barter partners, has vainly sought loans from private French banks...
Cuba faces a similar threat from inflated Red prices and dumping in its agreement to sell the Russians 1,000,000 tons of sugar a year outside of its normal world quota. Warns one economist: "Much of what we call Soviet aid is in fact deferred barter...