Word: bartering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody can tell for sure what it is or why, but the yeastiest dish on TV this season is served up about midnight every Tuesday when the Popocatepetl of party-givers, Elsa Maxwell, rises onstage at NBC's Tonight to barter inanities with cheeky, clef-chinned Jack Paar. To Elsa, Host Paar is "My King of Jest," and Jack calls Elsa "Queen of the Wild Frontier." "Elsa's not afraid to say what's on my mind," explains Paar as, with wide-eyed innocence, he eggs her on to gossip haphazardly about Perry Como ("He puts...
...premium. Now, with a new cotton crop heading for market, Cairo is at the mercy of its new customers. At one time recently, only two Cabinet officers were left in Cairo; the rest were out scurrying from The Hague to Peking in hopes of peddling cotton for whatever barter terms the Communists or anyone else might give...
President Eisenhower was more than willing to listen to their arguments. But he made it clear in advance that he would not barter away his authority, under the Constitution and statutes of the U.S., to put down mob rule wherever it arose...
...House approved and sent to the Senate a $1.3 billion program containing the Administration's request for authority to barter U.S. farm surpluses to Iron Curtain nations in return for strategic materials. The bill also allows the Administration to complete the second half of a $95 million agreement that provides for loans to Poland and payment in Polish currency for U.S. farm surpluses...
...FARM BARTER PROGRAM, by which U.S. since 1949 has contracted to trade more than $850 million worth of agricultural surplus for strategic materials from abroad, is being suspended, may be cut out entirely. Government thinks barter deals have displaced dollar sales of farm goods instead of creating new foreign markets, stepped up competition for domestic mining industry instead of reducing...