Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promise or threat, Congress was busy hamstringing real American intervention by Neutrality Acts and refusals of any sort of joint action. Disguised as a peace precaution, isolation took firm hold on Capital Hill, preventing economic action against Japan in 1932 and '37, Italy in 1935, and Germany up until Lend-Lease. The words "Action denied by Congress" appear in monotonous frequency in "Peace and War," serving as grim reminders of lost opportunities...
...most important reason is bigger consumption: the Army & Navy are now eating some 200 million lb. a year-and will need more as the armed forces grow. Huge amounts of butter are being delivered for Lend-Lease-a total of 8.5 million lb. between April 1941 and October 1942, of which 5 million lb. were shipped in October alone. And U.S. civilian demand, said the Agriculture Department, could go up to 2,600 million lb. (from 2,300 million in 1941) under current ceiling prices because of the nation's increased buying power...
Foodman Wickard hastily explained that there was no real shortage of these foods: supplies are the biggest ever. Big hitch is that the Army, Navy and Lend-Lease will gobble up about half 1943's production, leave only 33 Ib. for every U.S. citizen against a pre-war consumption of 46 Ib. The only choice was rationing, under a point system to be started when new ration books are ready in February...
...nine million and for 1944 twelve million. But while the Army and Navy talked these huge figures all through 1942, they offered little evidence that the U.S. could in fact equip such a huge number of troops, or get them to the fighting fronts, without abandoning the policy of Lend-Lease to Britain and tp Russia...
...well as Mr. Morgenthau, was on its way toward creating a national debt of over $200 billions. Would business recognize that the Government budget and Government debt policy can have a massive effect on employment or disemployment? The war through Lend-Lease had cut across old tariff and trade patterns, and had linked the economic health of England, and, through England, a dozen other nations, to that of the U.S. Would business recognize a world of internationalism-or would it retreat again to isolationism...