Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of steel many Lend-Lease allotments were cut 50% last week...
Realignment. Nelson explained that he had realigned WPB, not reorganized it. He is a "kind of umpire," said he, with plenty of authority to decide what supplies go to civilian needs, to Lend-Lease, Army, Navy. To the Army he turned over the remaining production problems, except plant conversion. The Army can decide for itself, said Nelson, how it can best use what it gets...
...speak with obvious admiration of what he had seen in England; earnestly to recommend Britain's "great determination to maintain after the war the kind of equity in distribution which the war has forced." There was an Assistant Secretary of State who pointed out how the principle of Lend-Lease could serve a world commonwealth as it is now serving the United Nations...
...London the sober Economist admitted that "political considerations, not technical convenience [U.S. & British Lend-Lease materials] will decide how the Moslem world reacts to a British defeat. It is useless to pretend that the political omens are very favorable...
China Will Need. But the military supply situation is desperate. Lend-Lease stuff from the U.S. is piled up in India. Planes flying over the Himalayas, at heights where ice forms on the wings and pilots need oxygen tanks, cannot carry big enough pay loads to dent the Indian piles. Moreover, planes are often grounded and are far too few. If there is anything more than a political gesture behind the sending of U.S. transports (TIME, June 22), they will have to appear in far greater quantities than at present...