Word: lend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill planned before they parted-a sanguine global strategy to win the war by Lend-Lease, a campaign to have the democracies fight a holding action until the weight of U.S. war production overwhelmed the Axis-whatever exactly they planned, one thing was certain: they had not planned the war to go as it has gone. Their reckoning did not provide for Pearl Harbor, for the fall of Singapore and The Netherlands East Indies, for a submarine blockade of the East Coast of the U.S., for the Jap moving into...
Oscar Sidney Cox, 36, a tall, tweedy, drawling Yankee lawyer from Portland, Me., has a formal job in the Justice Department (where he is now helping prosecute the eight Nazi saboteurs) and an even bigger sideline as general counsel on Lend-Lease. He drafted the original Lend-Lease bill, has since helped administer it. He scrapes up supplies, gets them shipped as often as he can. A government career man since 1938, Oscar Cox has had many bosses in the Capital: they all call him "the smartest damn lawyer in Washington...
...went to Washington from Harvard law school, is now executive assistant to WPB's Bill Batt. Ed Rhetts has never yet made the headlines-but if Russian soldiers knew his name, they would give him prayerful thanks every day. His job is to get WPB's Lend-Lease aid on to Russia-bound ships; Russians who come to the U.S. to get non-military help such as locomotives and machine tools knock first on Harry Hopkins' door, then wind up talking to Rhetts. He wangles the goods off U.S. production lines, fights the Army to get clearance...
...this was well and bitterly known to Lauchlin Currie when he faced Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and many another Chinese personage last week on Vice President H. H. Kung's lawn in Chungking. President Roosevelt had sent Dr. Currie to Chungking once before, in 1941, when Lend-Lease was a glowing promise. Now he was back, in the sixth and darkest year of China...
...third quarter of this year, it was able to meet only 85% of the demand for plates and less than that for shapes and rails. More than 50% of the U.S.'s gargantuan steel output is now going into direct military uses. Just over 25% is going into Lend-Lease shipments and new plant construction. The rest is being chewed up by repairs and maintenance, plus essential civilian consumption...