Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Martin was promoted as rapidly as regulations allowed: to 1st lieutenant, to captain, and, last Feb. 12, to major. Given special duty in Washington, he was transferred to the executive staff of the Munitions Assignments Board (Harry Hopkins), later moved to Lend-Lease. When Joseph E. Davies made his second mission to Moscow, Major Martin accompanied him. Last week, when Major Martin returned, he beamingly let it be known that at the state banquet, Premier Joseph Stalin had raised a glass, toasted the former chief of Wall Street...
...closely geared to the military through Secretaries Knox and Stimson, and by the presence of Harry Hopkins, who is close to all great strategic decisions, and is immensely powerful through his job as head of the Munitions Assignments Board, which divides military supplies among Army, Navy and Lend-Lease. (Hopkins, long entrenched in his White House foxhole against the savage attacks of his thousands of enemies, will now, by virtue of his job, be in a much more exposed position...
...high, hot plateau flowed past. In the wasteland below Special Passenger Francis Joseph Spellman, Archbishop of New York, Roman Catholic Military Vicar and unofficial envoy of the Vatican, lay tumbled the ruins of palaces built by ancient Persian conquerors; across it snaked a railway and motor road pulsing with Lend-Lease for Russia...
...year. The crusty old reserve was melting. A new understanding seemed dawning. Pushkin & Byron. The keynoter was Russia. Gone was yesteryear's cry for a second front, yesterday's disdain for the Anglo-American military effort. The Soviet press now gave due and admiring credit to American Lend-Lease, to the air blows over western Europe, to assembling invasion armies. The Russians were told that their future must be linked to that of their allies. English had become a primary instead of secondary language in the schools. Red Star, organ of the Army, capped the new feeling with...
...chance. When war ends, the U.S. will find itself with the greatest industrial plant in the world and more than 50 million soldiers and war workers looking for peacetime jobs. For a limited period after the end of hostilities, some of that energy can be turned to relief via Lend-Lease and agencies such as the Red Cross. But such relief is a part of the cost...