Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First is the question of supplying civilians, the military, Lend-Lease. Back in 1930 the U.S. produced 100 billion pounds of milk and milk products. The figure is jumping to 120 billion pounds this year, maybe to 122 billions next year...
...needs may reach 140-145 billions, of which civilians may get only 102 billion and the military and Lend-Lease the rest. Workers have more money to spend for milk, want also to piece out coffee shortages with milk, meat shortages with milk products. So rationing is in the works for early 1943, with the least essential uses cut hardest: ice cream, whipping cream, fancy cheese...
Next morning the happy secret of Sarah and Snatch was out: the U.S. invasion of North Africa. Turkey hoped, through Allied control of the Mediterranean, for a direct route for British-U.S. Lend-Lease supplies. Turkish-Soviet relations improved at once: Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov flew back to Turkey after a cool absence of four months...
...dried scheme for reordering American civilization. He does call for a revision of the forms of government to take cognizance of the fact of life in an industrial society, acceptance of the still unrecognized status and function of individuals in such a world. His thesis does not lend itself to easy paraphrase. It is rather a provocative form of thinking about the problem of preserving individual freedom in a fast-regimenting world...
...Production Requirements Committee, which at last possesses the basic facts on the size of the scarce materials pie, will slice it into seven pieces-for Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease, BEW, Civilian Supply and Charles Edward Wilson's new aircraft scheduling unit...