Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under Lend-Lease's bridge of ships, oceans of water had passed in two years. In the spring of 1941 the Lend-Lease Act produced one of the bitterest wrangles of the isolationist-interventionist debate. Last week Congress got ready to renew the Act in an atmosphere of love & kisses...
...Virtually all Lend-Lease money is spent in the U.S., being paid to farmers raising Lend-Lease food, to factory workers making Lend-Lease supplies. Examples: $50 millions in Lend-Lease were used to expand Ford tank and engine factories...
...every three tanks and combat planes manufactured in the U.S. in 1942 has been shipped to United Nations allies, either under Lend-Lease or through foreign purchases...
Reciprocity. The report was obviously submitted in anticipation of a searching Congressional inquiry of Lend-Lease agreements-which must be renewed next June-and Administrator Stettinius took considerable pains to show that Lend-Lease works both ways. Said...
Looking at the critical year to come, Administrator Stettinius said the most pressing Lend-Lease problem for 1943 would be delivery of food to Russia, where "millions are threatened with starvation." He conceded that until now only a small part of the weapons used against the Axis had been of American make; he promised that in 1943 the tide of planes and tanks would turn into a torrent...