Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Partner Corcoran left Government service for a fat private Washington law practice, Partner Cohen faded from the Washington spotlight. He volunteered as adviser to U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant in London to help speed Lend-Lease. After a brief spell in England he returned to Washington. Although he dropped off the Government payroll, he stayed in the background, occasionally helping to draft a bill, to give advice. He turned down several jobs offered by Franklin Roosevelt. Still an ardent New Dealer, it was winning the war that seemed important now. He was waiting for the spot in which...
...this had to do only with promised U.S. aid. It had nothing to do with the amount of aid Russia might possibly deserve. The U.S. was sending Russia only about one thirty-eighth of the total U.S. war production by value (35% of Lend-Lease exports...
...paper U.S. exports look good: 1942's estimated $7 billion will be the best since the 1920 world reconstruction boom. But 65% of them (excluding supplies to armed forces abroad) will be Government-shipped Lend-Lease goods. For exporters to keep their foreign organizations intact is nearly impossible, but they have plenty of work to do. To many a country 20-odd licenses, permits, other documents are necessary for even a $5 shipment...
However, since Navy equipment does not provide for the necessities of a jazz band, they would be "very grateful" to any student who would be willing to lend them any of the following essentials: two trumpets, trombone, guitar, tenor sax, set of drums. These should be left at A-31 Massachusetts Hall before 13 o'clock, they say, admitting that even professionals must practice...
What Donald Davis does from now on is almost a sky's-the-limit proposition. His potential job is to make one big war-winning whole out of the individual production demands of Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease, BEW and civilian supply. Now when he says "let's walk around that idea," burly Outdoor-man Davis is talking about the longest walk he ever set out to take...