Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democracy means equality of opportunity," he asserted, and pointed out the important role that economics will play in the post-war world. Already some effort has been made towards pooling of the world's resources and money in the Lease-Lend act with England, China, and Russia, but Professor De Haas warned that the pressure groups stand in the way of success...
Faddis' votes for repeal of the neutrality bill, destroyer-bases exchange, Lend-Lease, conscription extension, etc. give proof of his internationalism. It is because of this record of his anti-isolationism and of his opposition to Nazi propaganda that Representative Faddis has been receiving the votes of my Republican family...
...begun on two others of unannounced tonnage. Last week House Naval Affairs Committee Chairman Vinson revealed that about 35 cruisers and merchant ships are being converted to carriers. Some cruisers and merchant ships, almost completed, have been made over into flattops. Some of these carriers will probably be Lend-Leased to Britain, but that most must be kept by the U.S. is obvious to anyone who can do long division: an average carrier has 80 planes, 120 pilots, with 100% replacements on shore. Divide the 30,000 pilots the Navy wants in 1942 by 240 and, even allowing for land...
Last year the British were crying for evaporated milk under Lend-Lease, so AMA set out to boost U.S. production from 57.000,000 cases a year to 100,000,000 by the simple device of bidding the price up from $2.63 to $3.55 a case. The price mechanism worked like magic; the goal was reached almost overnight. Then the British found powdered milk could be shipped in one-quarter the space, said they could take only 7,000,000 cases, left AMA holding the bag and afraid of creating a minor panic by getting out of the market...
...freighter hauling men & munitions to Australia comes back cargo-full of wool. Wool supplies available this year are now estimated at 1,100,000,000 lb.-twice a normal year's consumption. But even this mountain of wool may not be enough: some of it is earmarked for Lend-Lease, and outfitting a new soldier takes about 200 lb. of wool, whereas civilians usually get along on five...