Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple functions, training and battle. All this suits their commanders, Lieut. Generals Lesley James McNair of the Ground Forces and Henry Harley Arnold of the Air Forces. The Services of Supply has the rest, from M.P.'s to ordnance, from housekeeping to transportation to the vast load of Lend-Lease. And that suits S.O.S.'s new boss...
Nonetheless, the Russian Air Force stepped up bombings of Finnish ports, where Nazi reinforcements were pouring in. In Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, recalling that U.S. Lend-Lease supplies are now rolling toward the Russian front over the Murmansk railroad, gave Finland a thin-lipped warning. "We are watching the situation," he said, "most closely...
...Ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and China's Foreign Minister T. V. Soong similar proposals for post-war economic collaboration* based on: 1) Article IV of the Atlantic Charter, providing for equal and free access to the world's raw materials; 2) Article 7 of the Lend-Lease agreement with the United Kingdom, providing for repayment of Lend-Lease materials in such a way as "to promote mutually advantageous economic relations . . . and the betterment of world-wide economic relations...
...This is the second time President Roosevelt has been prevented from getting General Burns away from Lend-Lease Administrator Hopkins. Last January he tried to make Burns Ambassador to Moscow...
They need new equipment already. But there are less than 15,000 new trucks to be rationed, and Lend-Lease will get a share of those. Only hope for trucks is to make their present equipment last. Said ODT's Joe Eastman last week: "In some way and somehow, we must keep these vehicles in service for essential purposes for the duration . . . and protect and preserve the rubber tires on hand, which constitute the most precious stockpile that our country possesses...