Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week was the seventh of Franklin Roosevelt's quarterly reports on Lend-Lease. The others had been inconclusive, sometimes disappointing. Now at last came one in which Americans could take real pride. Better than any purple language, its simple facts told the story of how American industry and the American worker had triumphed in the battle of production...
...size of U.S. armed forces in 1943 will be held down to the number that can be moved and equipped without cutting down Lend-Lease shipments to the Allies. (The 10,000,000-man Army & Navy talked of a few months ago will be trimmed to around...
...Army, Navy, Maritime Commission and civilian demands will be cut to fit raw-material supplies-and to leave ample resources for Lend-Lease...
Armed with his new Presidential order, patient, stubborn Claude Wickard can now offer them more help than he could promise last week. Food controls which have been scattered through eleven Washington agencies are now mostly in his hands. He has full supervision of setting food requirements for Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and civilians. He takes charge of food marketing, distribution, priorities, allocations and decisions to ration. His cumbersome Agriculture Department, with all the bureaus that have grown up over the years, is simplified into a production division and a distribution division-a framework that will permit Wickard to reshape...
London admitted: losses at Oran and Algiers included the Netherlands destroyer Isaac Sweers, the small British aircraft carrier Avenger (a Lend-Lease converted U.S. merchant ship), three British destroyers, five other small vessels and two ex-U.S. Coast Guard cutters, the Walney and Hartland, which, licked by flames, crashed through a boom at Oran into the inner harbor and landed troops before they sank...