Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy Munitions Board announced that there is not enough steel even for essential uses, which now amount to 117% of the maximum steel capacity of the U.S. (which has 50% of the whole world's capacity). Of the 117%, 67% is earmarked for Army, Navy, Maritime Commission and Lend-Lease; 14% for essential industries such as farm equipment and the railroads; 18% for new plants to make aluminum, rubber, etc.; 18% for other uses rated A-10 or better...
...containing CKD vehicles are smaller and more tightly filled than those needed for assembled units. Furthermore, smaller packages stow to better advantage in hold or 'tween decks. Such a fourfold flow of trucks is no pipe dream. Detroit motormakers regularly shipped CKD to Australia before the war; on Lend-Lease shipments, they are doing it now. Springs are compressed, wheels and fenders nested, frames squeezed and stacked. Each shipment is a folded embryo of trucks...
Terry and the Pirates, or rather Terry's numerous luxurious comic strip mates, are not going to lend their support to members of the Varsity crew squad this year, and because of this, local river sages have predicted a slight rise in the Yale stock...
Wayne Coy, now Smith's assistant, had served for a year as liaison man for the mysterious, jack-of-all-trades Office of Emergency Management. He was the man who untangled Lend-Lease to Russia when the knots were tight, who helped steer the property-requisitioning bill through Congress, helped bring C.I.O. and A.F. of L. together when John L. Lewis' "peace offer" threatened civil war in labor...
Montana's arch-isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler voted against repeal of the arms embargo, against Lend-Lease, against draft extension; he protested loudly when U.S. destroyers were traded to Britain, when U.S. troops took over Iceland; he scoffed at the idea of an attack on the U.S. or that such an attack could cut off the nation from strategic materials. Last week, when Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard told a Senate subcommittee that 80,000,000 bushels of wheat could be made available for manufacture of synthetic rubber, angry Senator Wheeler wanted to know why the delay...