Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appointed assistant to Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Major General Charles Macon Wesson (ret.), ex-Chief of Ordnance...
Plans had already been made to increase the amount of meat allotted for Army and Lend-Lease requirements from 2.2 billion pounds (1941-42) to 6 billion pounds (1942-43). This would still leave 11 billion pounds of federally inspected meat for U.S. civilians against 12.3 billion pounds last year. The committee hastily revised its calculations, figured on the possibility of sending another billion pounds to Britain, cutting the home supply to 10 billions. This week the committee recommended countrywide rationing of meat; packers announced they were ready to cooperate. Until rationing machinery can be set up, WPB will assign...
Lost Umbrellas. Buttressing the keen military insight of France, of course, was the dogged valor of Britain. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who had just refused to lend his umbrella to a London exhibition of notable walking sticks, did public penance for the appeasements of his past. To Parliament he stated: "Everything I had worked for, hoped for and believed in during my public life has cracked into ruins. There is only one thing left for me, and that is to devote what strength and power I have to forwarding the victory...
Last week the Senate Finance Committee saw the light, voted not to tax such paper profits. If this change becomes law, Class I carriers may well use half of this year's anticipated $650,000,000 net plus all the money the banks would lend them to cut their capitalizations. (One Eastern road almost got the banks to pay off half its bonds last year...
Washington hardly knew Dr. Conant-a Harvard classmate of Sumner Welles ('14) -when he went there to champion Lend-Lease in 1941. At a Senate committee hearing, Senator Gillette asked...