Word: lend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gratifying news to learn that President Roosevelt has sent a message to Congress asking for a $500,000,000 loan to China and that the British Government has made known it is ready to lend China...
...this way a depression can better be averted, because such agencies as the Lend-Lease and other credit organizations can be transferred from a war effort to one of reconstruction. In this way, the resources of the United States will be able to be used to their fullest extent and unemployment can be kept at a minimum...
...wartime production. His schedule: 20 cartoons for the Navy on airplane and warship identification; eleven more for the U.S. Treasury; 52 for the State Department, promoting Allied and Hemisphere solidarity; twelve for the Rockefeller Committee and its Hemisphere good-will program; one for the Department of Agriculture, publicizing Lend-Lease aid to the Allies; a recruiting short for the U.S. Merchant Marine; three more bond-selling shorts, and an Army anti-tank-rifle training film for Canada; a series of U.S. Army training films similar to the Navy...
...even now only twelve food products, clothing and gasoline are rationed in Britain. One reason: Lend-Lease. Because it increases the amount of consumer goods without generating more purchasing power, Lend-Lease is a big anti-inflationary influence in Britain. (It has the opposite effect...
...burden for Lend-Lease: The British depended heavily upon their Far Eastern tin and rubber exports for much of the dollar exchange, which they still need. The Empire's pre-Pearl Harbor contribution (exclusive of the United Kingdom itself): some $50,000,000 a month...