Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...form of lease and lend...
...food (actually a vegetable-meat) has not been named; it will not be offered under the unappetizing title of "yeast." The Army and Lend-Lease are already buying millions of pounds. Postwar possibilities are obviously enormous, and the product's wildest enthusiasts stop at nothing: observing that a 10-ft. vat can produce as much meat in a year as 1,000 acres of pasture, they fancy that the world's cattle may be heading for the last roundup...
...script was read to them over a closed wire before the broadcast). The program's author-producer-director, William N. Robson (TIME, March 8), thinks that the ether has been broken and that CBS can now go ahead to air other topical problems (inflation, black markets, etc.). To lend the race program authority, CBS had gotten Wendell Willkie to close it. The fact that his warm plea for tolerance was definitely an anticlimax was perhaps the best indication of the program's merit...
...rain-soaked fields and forests north of Orel (pronounced Oryol). The thundering artillery barrage which had been splitting the night lifted and the Red Army surged forward along a 25-mile front. The attack was led by 42-ton KV tanks, made in large Soviet plants in the Urals. Lend-leased British Churchills and U.S. Shermans were close behind. Then came the infantry, battle-toughened and well equipped, spirited by the news two days before of the invasion of Sicily. Their battle cry: Na Zapad (Westward...
...clothing boss of the Quartermaster General's Staff in Washington in 1940, when official plans concerned less than a million men, Robert Littlejohn privately planned and organized for twice that number. Sent to Britain a year ago, he pumped reverse Lend-Lease to get 40% of his supplies from the British. Littlejohn's anti-waste campaign has cut shipping space 12% without reducing rations. All the food and clothing for General Eisenhower's forces were his responsibility...