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Word: lende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matched. Even if he and British Ambassador Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen had stagged the leading nightclubs until 3 in the morning with Turkey's Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu, there was more formal entertaining to be done. The newly arrived corps of U.S. experts and Lend-Leasers made things especially crowded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Parlor Games | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...last week war prophets pointed to the Middle East as the "logical" point for the long-awaited Axis spring offensive. President Roosevelt announced that U.S. service troops were already in the Middle East -power-station and arsenal for the United Nations -and that Lend-Lease aid would be extended on north to Iran and Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Progress Report, May 11, 1942 | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...General Maxwell looked at his work, decided to hold his first press conference. He explained that the Mission's object had been to service and observe Lend-Lease planes, tanks, other equipment. To this end he had: 1) brought all previous American observers, technicians, advisers into his organization; 2) expanded Italian installations in Eritrea into supply and repair bases ("We took up the job where they left off; it was very convenient"); 3) established schools to train British personnel on U.S. equipment, and so thoroughly familiarized them with U.S. matériel that he could now turn the schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Progress Report, May 11, 1942 | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Owner of the scraggliest beard in Congress, George Tinkham has been stalking Roosevelt for nine years, hating the White House and all its works, hating the British as only an oldtime Yankee can, smelling Benedict Arnold in the Destroyer Deal, Lend-Lease, the Atlantic Charter; declaring always for strict neutrality, never thundering against Germans or Japs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Two Out, One to Go | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...Radio Directors Guild was born last week in Manhattan with a charter membership of 37, including four of the biggest: Norman Corwin, Arch Oboler, Irving Reis, Orson Welles. Its avowed purposes: 1) to improve radio entertainment; 2) to lend more effective radio assistance to the Government's war effort; 3) to establish the professional prestige of those who call the tune and set the pace for the mass entertainment of Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Director's Guild | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

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