Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turkey would be neither a diplomatic nor a military pushover for the Axis. Turkey was preparing northern defenses. Vital Turkish chromium was being shipped to the United Nations while Hitler paid Turkey in locomotives and rolling stock for the 90,000 tons he hoped to get in 1943.* U.S. Lend-Lease shipments to Turkey were increasing. Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov was expected soon to return to Ankara. The signs were as clear as Inönü's words...
...luncheon with the President went Admiral William H. Standley, Ambassador to Russia, returned from Moscow to make a special report. What the report contained was not disclosed: doubtless it dwelt longest on Joseph Stalin's impatience with Lend-Lease deliveries and delay on the second front...
...over-due domestic policies of the New Deal. He has had the vision to see the necessity for them. And while Senator Lodge has voted against most of the President's foreign policy, Mr. Casey has supported it. He voted for the fortification of Guam, aircraft appropriations, neutrality revision, lend-lease, draft extension and renewal of the trade pacts. Though he naturally has made many mistakes he has resolutely proven to be a fighter for progressive democracy at home and abroad. He deserves to be elected to the Senate...
Only Willkie could have condemned so caustically the Anglo-American record of broken promises and outworn premises. Winston Churchill cannot criticize Britain's vacillation in India, nor Franklin Roosevelt rebuke his own appointees for faulty administration of Lease-Lend. Complaints from Joseph Stalin or Chiang Kai-shek would have been dismissed as "Communist" or "Oriental" gripings. But when the titulary leader of the opposition party speaks his mind so candidly, his works command attention and respect...
While housewives and economists worry about shortages of foods, the Agricultural Marketing Administration maintains its favorite fiction-the surplus commodities list. Army and Lend-Lease needs leave only wheat as a real surplus, but the surplus buying and food-stamp plan devised in the depression to keep up prices still persist...