Word: bartering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delaware's Republican Senator John J. Williams started these rumblings last week by revealing that 24 million bushels of surplus U.S. livestock feed grains had somehow gone astray. The grain was supposed to have been shipped to Austria between 1959 and 1962 in a complex intergovernmental barter deal, but Administration officials admitted that international grain dealers had apparently reaped lush profits by illegally diverting most of the stuff to West Germany and selling it there...
...since E.N.I, is by far their biggest commercial foreign customer. And E.N.I., which is currently building refineries in seven countries, wants Soviet oil to meet its growing demands. A diversified industrial complex as well as an oil company, E.N.I, has found trading with Russia doubly advantageous because it can barter manufactured goods for oil; 90% of the synthetic rubber from its big Ravenna petrochemical plant went to Russia last year, and so did a wide assortment of its pumps, compressors and other machines. In a little-publicized deal, E.N.I, has also designed and is equipping a combined ammonia-methanol plant...
...past, the HRO has seemed willing to trade fewer professional performances like Friday's Dvorak for more real musical adventure than it has this year. One cannot say whether the reluctance to barter this year rests with Swoboda or the members of the orchestra, but one can hope that next year, Swoboda, having consolidated a fine orchestra, will lead it on to modern works that deserve its talents...
...province. The Chinese may have been unprepared to exploit the almost total collapse of India's armed forces and may even have been surprised by their swift success. On this reading, the terms of the Chinese cease-fire offer become intelligible. The Nov. 7 line would in effect barter away the sizable Chinese gains in NEFA for Indian acceptance of China's property rights in Aksai Chin...
...modern revisionism." meaning the Khrushchev line, Peking's People's Daily vilified the Kremlin's Cuban policy as "sinister and venomous, disgraceful." and seeking "to befuddle the Cuban people and mentally disarm them." The paper urged a "headon" confrontation with the U.S. instead of a "barter" of Communist principles. Next day. Red Flag, official organ of the Chinese Central Committee, taunted Khrushchev with the accusation that "the modern revisionists are scared stiff of the 'policy of strength' of U.S. imperialism...