Word: stringham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barter. By far the most completely organized and successful barter group now operating is the Natural Development Association of Salt Lake City. It was organized by Benjamin B. Stringham, a realtor, during the harvest time of 1931 when city laborers needed food but had no money to buy it and farmers needed hands but had no money to pay them. The laborers worked for farm produce. The N. D. A. now operates an oil refinery, two canning factories, a tannery, a coal mine. It has a two-story headquarters at Salt Lake City in which it maintains a produce...