Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Hitler's war machine crushed France in ten bone-shattering days, the U.S. looked at its own little Army, nervously debated Lend-Lease. Now a leaner U.S. had its own war machine. Hitler's juggernaut, poised for spring, would soon be only the second greatest. Guarded U.S. estimates placed Nazi war spending at $35,000,000,000 a year, close to the absolute German ceiling of manpower and materials. The U.S., said WPB, is spending at the rate of $30,000,000,000 a year-and just getting started. Soon the U.S. will pass Hitler; next year...
...Harry Hopkins' munitions man on the United Nations High Command, General Burns had done a crackerjack job. He was a work horse in starting the infinitely complex Lend-Lease, has had a hand in distributing all military equipment to the Allies ever since. If anybody knows what and how much materiel each of the United Nations needs, General Burns is the man. He also knows the right people-which is very important in Washington...
...Many Lend-Lease ships which heretofore returned from Britain with Scotch whiskey are now returning with chalk as ballast. Reason: British stocks of Scotch are running low. Consequence: the U.S. supply of Scotch (now sufficient for about six months) will also begin to decline rapidly...
There was plenty for him to do in his new job. Badly needed was a mastermind to straighten out the tangle and confusion of Lend-Lease red tape and to synchronize U.S. production and purchasing with British and Russian needs. The Beaver knew how to cut red tape. Whether the brilliant, bumptious outspoken millionaire was the right man to handle all the delicate bric-a-brac of human relationships involved was something else again...
...give the angry dealers relief, OPA's automan Cyrus McCormick has already promised that they will be allowed to sell at least 340,000 cars this year. Last week OPA eased the rules covering registration of new cars. Meanwhile Nash announced that it would lend its dealers $10 cash per car per month until March...