Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eisenhower, commander of the North African AEF; by Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, deputy commander; by Major General Carl Spaatz, the AEF's air commander; by Lieut. General Frank Maxwell Andrews, Commander in Chief of American Forces in the Middle East; by William Averell Harriman, the U.S. Lend-Lease expediter in London. Also present was the President's son, Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt...
...Lend-Lease is not a loan of money. Nor has it even been an act of charity. [It] was undertaken for the defense of this country and has been carried out in the interests of the U.S. people...
...said silver-haired Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr. this week as he submitted to Congress the first fully documented overall report on Lend-Lease operations. In the 21 months since its beginning in March 1941, the report showed, the total value of Lend-Lease expenditures in goods and services to 30 of the United Nations was $8,233,000,000-or 13% of total U.S. war expenditures. The stream of goods to the U.S. Allies had increased month by month until October 1942, when it dropped off-presumably because of the U.S. offensive in North Africa...
...Invitation. General Mills got into war work half by choice, half by invitation. The first war orders came naturally-dried eggs for Lend-Lease, precooked breakfast food and vitamin preparations for the Army, oat flour for paratroopers' basic rations. Then General Mills thought of its small, efficient manufacturing division (food-packaging machinery, milling equipment), decided to get a few machine-made orders. The first job was making plungers for ammunition hoists. Then General Mills got a prism order, ran it off in record time by perfecting a device to grind 54 prisms simultaneously. With this greyhound start, the company...
Women are critically needed to take over duties on local rationing boards, at settlement houses, and in a host of other capacities, and it is hoped that wives of servicemen stationed in Cambridge will lend a hand at some of these jobs...