Word: bartering
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Wise Wampum. Then there was barter. A car would get you an apartment and an apartment would get you a car. A butcher in Atlanta was doing well in the house construction game-meat got him nails, flooring, plumbing fixtures when other builders were shut down tight. World
...Indians would vote at places like Davis Inlet and Northwest River. There, in good seasons, they barter their prized Labrador mink and fox pelts; in bad seasons, pick up their Government dole. Only the Indians wage a battle for existence in the virtually unmapped, unknown interior, and they are losing. Where rigor and hardship have failed to decimate them, intermarriage and the ills brought by the white man have succeeded...
Such tactics had already wrung from the Brazilians a verbal agreement to barter 3,000 tons of rubber for wheat. Juan Perón first drove Uruguay to rationing bread, then told Montevideo bakers that they could have all the wheat they wanted after he took office next month. Uruguay's elections come next fall, and Perón, who has never had much good to say for intervention, would regulate the flow of wheat to make sure that his candidate-Senator Eduardo Victor Haedo...
...peace." In Manhattan last week, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs William L. Clayton pointed out that the U.S. and Britain were pledged to get their allies to shelve the economic nationalisms that existed between the wars-excessive tariffs, quotas, embargoes, preferences, subsidies, licenses, exchange controls, clearing agreements, barter deals. But Will Clayton failed to say that the U.S.-British declaration of last December is as far as ever from implementation. In December Clayton had said that the 16 "nuclear nations" who do the great bulk of the world's trade would meet this spring to cut tariffs...
SCAP (Supreme Commander of the Allied powers in the Pacific) announced that Japanese trade would be on a noncompetitive barter basis. Maximum volume during 1946 is fixed at only about 25% of prewar levels, roughly $800,000,000 in imports and exports. The Potsdam standards which apply to Germany would apply also to Japan. Thus exports will be permitted only to get foreign exchange to buy essential imports to: 1) prevent disease and unrest; 2) carry out the objectives of occupation; 3) establish a minimum Japanese economy...