Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan in essence: to pick one authority to take steel over from WPB's inadequate Requirements Committee, to force Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and Civilian Supply to sit down and divide up the steel with no chiseling afterwards for special "emergencies." Most important: when the inevitable conflicts arise, they are to be appealed directly to a final court: Donald Nelson...
That was not all there was in Eritrea to make Italian eyes widen. When it was decided last year to set up bases there for Lend-Lease material, U.S. laborers, recruited in New York, were rushed to the fever-ridden little country on the Red Sea. To escape the heat of the lowlands, where the temperature sometimes reaches 120°, they were housed 4,000 feet above sea level on the inland plateau and transported every day to the sweltering seacoast...
General Philip R. Faymonville, U.S. Lend-Lease expeditor. But these were tidbits of news, possibly significant, possibly unimportant...
...Britons here & there showed signs of progress. In a secondary school in the working-class district of Manchester the children had organized a "Pen Pals Club" to correspond with U.S. moppets in such namesake towns as Manchester, Tex., Manchester, Mich. They steamed labels from cans of Lend-Lease goods, wrote history themes on the towns and States whence they originated...
Purp or no Purp, the weekly meeting of WPB's strategic Requirements Committee is a solemn but frequently fantastic scene: one admiral (Navy), one lieutenant colonel (Maritime Commission), one general, at least one bigwig apiece from State, BEW, Lend-Lease and WPB's Civilian Supply section meet to battle over the absolutely minimum material needs of each absolutely essential division...