Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While equipping these men and the Army on its own shores, the U.S. has sent stout help to the British in Egypt (more than 1,000 planes, "many hundreds" of tanks, 20,000 trucks). It has increased Lend-Lease assistance to all allies to the rate of $10,000,000,000 a year. With Great Britain, it has shipped to Russia this year, over the northern route alone, more than 3,000 planes, 4,000 tanks, 30,000 trucks-though not all arrived...
Flow & Future. Conferring at the White House, Franklin Roosevelt and Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius were mightily pleased. The flow of arms had only begun: their next report would be better than this one, and the one after that even better...
...Southern States to charge a man $1 to vote. Congress voted a Navy big enough to rule the seven seas; before Pearl Harbor its isolationist horsemen almost rode into defeat the President's request to put cannon on merchant ships. Suspicious of U.S. allies, Congressmen haggled over Lend-Lease; yet last week they could see the magnificent results of that policy...
Vice Chairman Ferdinand M. Eberstadt, after three months on WPB, had his new "controlled materials plan," for allocating the nation's raw materials, well in hand. For the first time there was a concrete program of Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and civilian needs for 1943. Eberstadt also knew, better than ever before, how much material would be available. There was a good chance that supply and demand could be balanced...
...educated and Associated Press-trained) in his nine years with the Department has been director of personnel, head of the Surplus Marketing Administration and chief of the Agricultural Marketing Administration. As AMAdministrator he has bought as much as 550 million pounds of foodstuffs a month worth $114 million for Lend-Lease, Red Cross, domestic distribution and reserve stockpiles...