Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...port never did get any important British Lend-Lease shipments to handle. Russian Lend-Lease cargoes were loaded at Boston only for a brief space. Complaining of labor conditions, mismanagement, congestion in the railroad yards, the Russians announced in a huff last January that they were going to pull out. Tall, handsome Richard Parkhurst, chairman of the Boston Port Authority, made mighty efforts, even won important concessions from the longshoremen, carried his pleas to Washington-to no avail. Russian officials took their business to other harbors, began complaining there just as loudly...
...voters knew they were getting no statesman. Senator Brooks was one of the bitterest of pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists, a loud, rabble-rousing opponent of Lend-Lease, of draft extension, of revision of the Neutrality Act. Brooks, a veteran of three defeats for other offices which his sponsor, the Chicago Tribune, had sought for him, had squeaked through to victory in 1940 while the electorate's eyes were focused on the more important Roosevelt-Willkie campaign. In 17½ months in the Senate his only achievement had been membership on the hapless isolationist committee which had tried to smear...
...General of Supply invited me to ride to the front in a lend-lease U.S. Army scout car, loaded with soldiers and armed with riot guns, and explained that I must not travel at night unarmed: "This is not China. People are unfriendly." An orange glow tinted the sky when we ran into a truck jam and a hubbub of cursing Chinese soldiers. "Six planes incendiarized a town south of the river, and traitors burned the north of the river," an officer explained. In the woods, the tall, straight trees formed pillars in the column of fire, and stood trembling...
Biggest single war problem of the United Nations is transportation. The problem was tough when the first Lend-Lease shipments made the 3,900-mile trip to Britain, got tougher when the supply lines stretched 5,000 miles to Russia and Africa, reached the limits of toughness when the Far East blew up, 10,000 miles away. To serve all these routes there is only a thin line of poky, fat-bellied ships-a line that gets thinner as the routes get longer and enemy subs sock home their war heads...
...Treasury is also forbidden by law to sell its silver below $1.29 an ounce. Washington lawyers managed to dope out a way to lend-lease it. The way: use silver instead of copper for bus bars in electric generating plants and in the "pot lines" of aluminum and magnesium plants. A typical large bus bar would take a chunk of silver 24 feet long, eight inches wide, three-fourths of an inch thick-weighing 650 lb. After the war the silver, little or none the worse for wear, could be replaced by copper again and returned to West Point...