Word: barterer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles Street, at the foot of Beacon Hill, is the heart of the hippie community's social life. One end of Charles skirts Boston Common, which used to be the community's commercial center for the sale and barter of drugs. The business has been forcibly de-centralized since last August, when 200 to 300 hippies who had been eating, sleeping and trading on the Common were challenged by a midnight curfew. To protest, they staged sleepins, and there were several nights of rioting with police before the hippies grew tired and scattered to other living places...
Journeying to the Soviet capital, Czechoslovak Premier Oldřich Cernick put his signature on a new seven-year economic agreement that abolishes any hope that Czechoslovakia might be able to seek funds and know-how in the West to revitalize its disastrously outmoded industry. The agreement was another barter deal, similar to earlier ones that ruinously shortchanged the Czechoslovaks; they must deliver trucks, heavy pipe and other manufactured goods to the Russians in return for raw materials. In addition, both countries will cooperate in the construction of a long pipeline to carry natural gas from the Soviet fields...
...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...