A farmer could get wood to build his house. But he had to buy the wood and pay the railroad to bring it west. To farm the plains, he needed barbed wire for fences, and plows and other new equipment.
You wanna jump in, you want to practice some warm-up, you don't wanna be tripping over barbed wire and facing off a bomber who's not really involved in the online game.
A few years ago, on the second floor of his Upper East Side mansion, he had a mural painted that shows a photorealistic prison scene, with barbed wire, correction officers and a guard station.
While Pergasa is separated from the Subic Bay Naval Station by only a few yards, a moat of raw sewage, and a fence of barbed wire, the concerns of its residents could not be more distant.
Speaking through an interpreter, a 72-year-old Israeli wipes away tears, saying the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau with its barbed wire and the ruins of gas chambers stirs feelings of horror.
Up until 1963, The Rock was home to America's hardest prisoners but where there was once only concrete, steel and barbed wire, there are now gardens and wildflowers.
They surrounded the whole area with a three-metre wall topped with barbed wire and stopped food supplies from entering, trapping everyone in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions.