Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many pounds of meat have been Lend-Leased...
...believes that to handle it properly involves this: setting up Federally financed but State-operated machinery for retraining the veterans and placing them in jobs, plus possibly agencies to lend money to groups of competent veterans who might start small retail or manufacturing businesses. Should the veterans feel they were replaced "in civilian life on the basis of the accidents of geography or birth, there will be many who will become frustrated and embittered-particularly if the general level of prosperity should fall," and we should have departed further from the American ideal and abetted a caste society which...
...swelling flow of U.S. war goods moving overseas pushed the value of U.S. exports in March to $930 million, the highest ever recorded in one month and more than triple the 1938 monthly aver age. Of this vast sum, Lend-Lease took $688 million. But imports, although double prewar 1938, were valued at only $243 million. This prodigious unbalance in U.S. foreign trade was a grisly index of the dreadful cost of war in terms of real wealth...
...helped Japan before this war by furnishing scrap iron and oil and, also, Germany by supplying raw cotton, copper and oil from our surpluses. We are now helping the entire civilized world through lend-lease. We have just celebrated "I Am an American Day." Isn't it about time we exercised a bit of intelligent self-interest in America? William H. Cliff...
...trade also doubts soothing state ments from the Army & Navy that their need for cotton textiles will be no greater than the 4.7 billion yd. - 35% of production - that they and Lend-Lease took last year. Last week's headlines were black with news of new orders for soldiers & sailors (who wear out clothes even faster in foreign service), new Lend-Lease de mands and new buying for the Office of Foreign Relief & Rehabilitation...