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Thus began the end of the unprecedented device by which Franklin Roosevelt, nine months before U.S. entry into the war, began to furnish munitions, food, tools and services to nations who became U.S. allies. By this week the horn of U.S. industry and plenty had poured out about $40 billion worth of Lend-Lease. It was help which in the end-result of victory could not be truly measured by what Franklin Roosevelt had once called "the silly foolish old dollar sign...
...they decided that ministers could make country life more interesting if they knew more about its practical phases. Said Dean Trimble: "Since the church is the only institution in some [rural] communities, we should have men who would be able to wrestle not only with the religious problems but furnish some leadership for the community in all of its aspects." The school was nonsectarian, but most of the preacher-students were Methodists. Instructors skirted doctrinal mat ters, stressed the cold facts of soil conservation, health, education. Classes were highly informal, with the preachers lounging in overstuffed chairs and enthusiastically shouting...
Stressing the vital importance of the CATS mission, Brigadier-General Bryan said that Civil Affairs officers have to furnish the follow-through to the Army's combat operations. He cited the history of the CATS experiences, pointing to the unpreparedness and mismanagement before and during the North African campaign. "But after Sicily, where the CATS were viewed at first with skepticism and later with gratification and even enthusiasm, the Civil Affairs officers have become very much in demand," General Bryan continued
...French footed the bill for the most part, through reverse Lend-Lease. But in a France short of everything, the Army had to furnish materials, comb through the Nazi prisoners for skilled workmen, haul coal for the plants from northern France, even supply food...
Selective Clientele. In Brooklyn, N.Y., S. Baron, ready for a vacation, wrote to a camp: "Please furnish information regard ing weekend facilities at your summer camp." The resort: the Army's Camp Shanks...