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Word: lende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where the hell does the war stamp committee get off asking me to lend the government twenty-five cents a week? I've got troubles enough of my own. Besides, I didn't want war and since they got us into it, let Roosevelt worry about raising the money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Unsung Heroes | 7/8/1942 | See Source »

...medium-sized freighter at anchor a mile or so out in the harbor-the rescue ship. At about 8 o'clock, Dr. Daniel Hiebert, the Public Health Officer, went out to the ship in a Coast Guard boat, later called for Dr. Frank Cass to come out and lend a hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Dear Wife, I am O.K. | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...listen to the key Blue station Even though the hour be late. Prithee lend thine ears-Oh gate Though hush-a-tongue no idle talk Over WJZ, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Moonlight Savings | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...bagmaker, last week reported that, while burlap-bag output was down 80%, cotton-and paper-bag production was up 50%. This switch was cheap: a few ingenious adjustments immediately converted burlap-bag machines to cotton; paper-bag facilities were enlarged and slapped on longer schedules. Meantime Lend-Lease and military bag orders piled in. Thus, instead of starving on the jute shortage, Bemis Bro.-and most other U.S. bagmakers-are serving the war effort by the highest production ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Last Word in Jute | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...these increases would ordinarily jam-pack every butcher's showcase in the U.S., mean cheap meat for U.S. citizens. Not this year. The Government is buying 40% of all packer-processed pork, a big (but undisclosed) portion of beef and veal output. Some of this is lend-leased, but the bulk of it is gobbled up by U.S. fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: 57 Varieties Go To War | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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