Word: crowley
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Realistic Leo T. Crowley, Foreign Economic Administrator, was good & tired of loose talk about the U.S. Lend-Lease program. Last week he reported to Congress that Lend-Lease aid had reached the fabulous total of $35,382,000,000.* At the same time, he tartly observed that the effect of Lend-Lease on civilian goods shortages at home "has been greatly overstated in numerous false rumors." To scotch the rumors, he stated a few facts...
What will happen at war's end to the vast amount of industrial equipment which the U.S. has Lend-Leased abroad? The United Kingdom gave a partial answer last week. She paid $31,500,000 to Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration for the 58,000 machine tools which the U.S. has shipped Britain under Lend-Lease-the first nation to buy such material outright...
...tools Britain bought had originally cost the U.S. $166,000,000, but the deal was not quite the bargain for Britain that it seemed. To keep the bookkeeping record straight, FEA Boss Leo Crowley had thriftily included in his bill the cost of tools sunk in transit or later bombed out in Britain...
...Appointed judge in 1939 by Hagueman Governor A. Harry Moore (who remarked at the time, "I know this will make his dad happy"), young Frank had no chance at reappointment by G.O.P. Governor Walter Edge, snapped at an offer to do legal work in New Dealer Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration. New salary bracket: $3,600 to $4,200 yearly...
...Illinois' Galloping Ghost of 1924 joined two of Notre Dame's famed 1924 Four Horsemen to form a ruling triumvirate of pro football: 1) ex-Horseman Elmer Layden, now serving his third season as $20,000-a-year commissioner of the National League; 2) ex-Horseman Jim Crowley, named last fortnight as the boss of the newly organized All-America Conference; 3) Harold ("Red") Grange, elected president of the also-projected U.S. League. Still to be heard from was Trans-America, the third of the embryo leagues (TIME, Oct. 9)-which could reach ex-Horsemen Don Miller...