Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Room. Many a port was deep last week in boxed planes, tanks and Lend-Lease food supplies awaiting cargo space. To avoid the pile-up of 1918, which led to the Government's taking over the railroads, WPB is building a chain of emergency depots near the coasts, where goods can be stored more safely than at dockside. In some defense areas, warehousemen have pooled facilities...
...onetime Arizona Congressman, onetime Budget Director. Lewis Douglas quit in protest against New Deal spending policies, became president of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, was a leading Democrat-for-Willkie in 1940. Last month he and President Roosevelt buried the hatchet, and Douglas went back as assistant Lend-Lease expediter. His new job will be all-important: to work closely with the Board of Economic Warfare, decide what ships should carry what materials where...
...been a bad lag in the actual movement of U.S. war material to Russia and Turkey. The long-tried patience of Joseph Stalin-smothered with promises, fed with a trickle-is near the cracking point. Turkey, which unofficially promises to go anti-Axis for the barest trifle of Lend-Lease aid, is now getting desperately nervous, because no U.S. aid arrives. The President, seeing the Lend-Lease clearance papers, takes it for granted that the goods have been shipped, does not know that they have been sidetracked by the U.S. Army & Navy for other uses...
Washington correspondents were told these things last week as facts-by responsible people in the Administration who should know. Certainly a bitter behind-the-scenes battle was under way in Washington. The State Department, the Lend-Lease Administration, the agents of Information Coordinator Bill Donovan were fighting to get aid to Russia and Turkey before the Japs and Germans closed all possible routes of aid. The Army and Navy Departments were fighting to get all possible aid to United Nations forces now in combat; to mount offensives, if possible; to build up defenses at vulnerable points...
...agreement's terms, the President is given power to set the value of Lend-Lease aid at any figure he pleases. Against these debts, the President will balance the value of Britain's services by: 1) fighting the war virtually alone for a year and a half; 2) continuing to supply men & materials now. And in the final peace settlement the U.S. and Britain are bound to break down the imperial preferences and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff...