Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production boss last January, he provided a solution-on paper. Donald Nelson had full power to convert U.S. factories to war, build new plants, gather up the nation's raw materials. Most important, he could allocate the materials as he saw fit among Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease, civilians...
...this flying the Army has promised to "lend-lease" new cargo planes to the airlines as fast as they come off production lines-a minimum of 300 by Christmas. Said General George: "The only limit is [the airlines'] ability to expand." Biggest immediate addition will be scores of sturdy, twin-engined Douglas DC-35, now rolling off California production lines at a record clip. Next will come giant 25-ton Douglas DC-45, able to tote a ten-ton payload non-stop for 2,200 miles. For the rest of the fleet the Army will lend the airlines huge...
Despite record-breaking production, there is not enough beef or pork for everybody-for the Government is buying 30% of the kill for Lend-Lease and the Army, and the new rich are buying meat as never before. The shortage struck first in cities where the ceiling prices were lowest: the packers, squeezed between ceilings and rising hog and steer prices, naturally preferred to sell where the squeeze hurt least...
...third aim of post-war Russia. The So- viets will need American goods and machinery. We will be wise to trade with Russia, for even the most conservative business man recognizes the good business in close economic cooperation, especially in view of the two or three billions in American lend-lease money which will be in Russia...
...Lend-Lease demands, operated by Harry Hopkins directly from me White House, have been huge and variable. When Churchill was last in the U.S., the President alloted him additional steel, and WPB was slow in being advised...