Word: bartering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coke foregathered at Leipzig during the week for that city's 700th annual fair. From the U. S. alone came 1,500 buyers. At Leipzig they mingled with oleaginous Armenian lace vendors, stalwart Norwegian goat cheese merchants, shrewd Jugoslavian toy whittlers. When the week of chop, swop and barter closed, over 50% more business had been done than in the previous record year...
...Constitution Square. At eve he sought the new Dictator-with and against whom he has plotted many times-presented a petition signed by many a rabble scrawl demanding the formation of a Coalition Cabinet. This demand, already fructifying in other brains, led to a congress of chop, swap and barter between a spoil-ravenous group of military and naval adventurers and numerous former Premiers (Kafandaris, Papanastasion, Michalakopoulos, etc.). For a time anarchy loomed. Eventually General Kondylis, mixing bluster with serpentine intrigue was able to form what he called "a business cabinet." The "recalled" President of the Hellenic Republic, Admiral Konduriotis...
...humble shoebag, heavy with potency, set amidst the whispering grandeur of mattresses, old iron, papers and rubber tires, joggled tracklessly through the streets of Springfield, Mass., borne on a junk wagon to ignominious barter. The frowzy-whiskered junkman shifted about in his seat when a motorcycle policeman ordered him to the curb, fluttered two dirty palms in astonishment. The officer settled on a blue mattress as a hawk onto a mouse, prospected deeper into the indiscernible vagaries in the rear of a junk-wagon, retrieved the humble shoebag, departed triumphantly with it for its heartbroken owner - one Peter Audaim - after...
Internal Soviet Economics. Institutions of a "capitalistic" nature are slowly being reintroduced into Russia. An example in point is money. Up to 1921, the Soviet authorities continuously debased the ruble by inflation until it all but vanished, with the avowed intention of employing thereafter a system of communal barter into which money would not enter. Since 1921 a reversal of this policy has resulted in the creation of a new State Bank and the introduction of the Tchervonets (plural "Tchervontsy"), a monetary unit equivalent to 10 pre-war gold rubles...
...failed, they might pay him back whenever they could. He was not an insistent creditor. He counted his judgment as much a part of the investment as their honor. And it was against his instincts to "sell out"; once he had built something, he kept it. He did not barter, destroy, amalgamate and otherwise treat newspapers and newspapermen as impersonal bits of merchandise in the manner of his late contemporary, Publisher Munsey. A publisher of the highest order, he remained always a newspaperman himself, sticking to the platform that he wrote for the first issue of the Penny Press...