Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lend-Lease celebrate its second anniversary by a Congressional extension until June 30, 1944. The vote: Senate, 82-to-0; House, 407-to-6. (The vote nine months before Pearl Harbor: in the Senate, 60-to-31; in the House...
...same way the local group will take up subjects of current interest and in the future will discuss the Beveridge Plan, the Ruml Pay-As-You-Go Plan, Lend-Lease, Rickenbacker's attack on American labor, and other timely matters...
Chile's Ambassador Rodolfo Michels and the State Department's Under Secretary Sumner Welles, apostle of hemisphere unity, last week signed a Lend-Lease agreement in Washington. The agreement did not greatly improve Chile's actual prospects of getting needed industrial equipment while there is a shipping shortage (see p.27). But the general warmth of Chilean and U.S. relations moved stern, unsmiling President Juan Antonio Rios to make an extraordinary statement in Santiago: he came out for a fourth term for Good Neighbor Roosevelt. President Rios, now in his first (four-year) term, expressed the hope that...
...plan would reduce the U.S. almost to the low British level of meat consumption. The British are allowed 16 oz. of meat and 4 oz. of bacon and ham, plus 4 oz. of cheese a week. But a report by Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius punctured the theory that the U.S. was short of meat on Britain's account. Meat exports by Lend-Lease last year amounted to only 5% of the total supply. And Lend-Lease in reverse, i.e., food supplied by Australia and New Zealand to our armed forces abroad, exceeded our Lend-Lease shipments...
...Ambassador pointedly remarked that a new Lend-Lease bill was before Congress. "The American Congress," he said, "is big-hearted and generous, but if you give it the impression that their help means nothing, there might be a different story...