Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lobby of Park Avenue's Drake Hotel, Pat di Cicco, husband of Gloria Vanderbilt, got to fighting with an Irish room clerk because the hotel would not lend him a pot to cook a chicken...
...cotton bagging but, with all the other demands on cotton mills, the rating so far has turned out to be about as good as Confederate money. Up to now, burlap-starved farmers have got by somehow with emergency allocations, used-bag collections, etc. With mounting cries from bag-starved Lend-Leasers and Good Neighbors, best hope is that such makeshifts-together with stepped-up production of Latin American substitutes-will continue to keep the hand and the mouth connected...
...long-ailing port of Boston will lose this week some of the best business it has had in years. For some months Boston has been the jumping-off point for Lend-Lease cargoes bound for Russia. But, because Boston has not been able to handle loadings speedily enough, shipments from now on will be made mainly from another East Coast port...
...year turn back the hands of the clock. In 1925 she produced 6,000,000 tons, but having sold only about 2,000,000 tons a year to the U.S. during the '30s, the best she expects to be able to do for the U.S. and Lend-Lease in 1942 is 3,800,000 tons...
Nonetheless, grain alcohol will probably help to relieve the sugar shortage. It may also be relieved, paradoxically, by the shipping shortage. Of the sugar which the U.S. has bought from Cuba, 1,500,000 tons is earmarked for Lend-Lease shipments to the Allies. If the shipping is not available to carry it across the oceans, some of it may take the shorter route...