Word: bartering
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Next day, the obliging Socialist Arbeiter Zeitung, which seems to do a lot of Volksstimme's legwork,* revealed that the bananas came to Austria as part of a barter deal between Russian occupation forces and the Italians. Viennese really owed their thanks to a Soviet inspection officer who, it appeared, had never before seen a banana. The inspector had chomped a big bite of one-skin & all. Tasted horrible. His ruling: ". . . Unfit for Russian military personnel-dispose of them on the Austrian economy...
...stop by a tree on a corner. He will remove a score of little slips of paper pinned there. They read: "Want bread, offer German cigarettes . . ." "Will sell linen tablecloth and curtains for money or food . .." ". . . Discharged P.W. wants pair of pants; gives money or potatoes." This is illegal barter, but every neighborhood has its own Brotbaum (bread tree). Berlin in this spring of 1948 is undeniably a city-but the life of a great part of its people could never be confused with civilization...
...does tell the story, in its somewhat lumbering fashion, to any country that will buy or barter its news. It has 125 U.S.-trained men abroad (90 prewar). But the A.P. has refused to let the State Department use its file for the "Voice of America," lest foreigners suspect its "impartiality...
...pressed for lowering of tariffs, abolition of quantitative restrictions (i.e., fixing of how much of certain goods a nation could buy or sell), the breakup of tight little barter and preference blocs. .But the "backward" nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America insisted that, unless their fledgling industries were protected by fences, they would forever remain merely cheap sources of bananas, coffee or jute for the more highly industrialized nations. The delegates of these "backward" nations pointed out that it was only the protective tariff which had made 19th Century America so rich that it could afford to oppose protection...
...Barter. In San Jose, Calif., Annie Bernal was awarded a divorce and what was left of the Bernal house when she testified that her husband had sold the doorbell, the windows, the kitchen stove, the lighting fixtures and the plasterboard walls to buy wine...