Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Materials-the job of finding enough of them-remains under Batt, who also heads a new Requirements Committee. This committee will survey existing supplies of raw materials, allocate them among Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and civilians...
...wide and effective as the break which put Donald Nelson in charge of war production at home. By superseding the host of obscure agencies and purchasing commissions which have been handling aid to the Allies, the President's three new boards may be able to swell Lend-Lease to a torrent, send it roaring down to engulf the Axis...
...Spaniards and the Americans. Silence was to be expected from the Ilocanos, the ingenious "Yankees of the Philippines" in whose villages life followed its immemorial pattern regardless of conquest. Silence was expected from the Chinese who tend the stores in the villages, do much of the islands' trading, lend money to extravagant Filipinos, mind their own business and have bowed temporarily to invaders before...
...should become "a western outpost of totalitarian Europe or the eastern outpost of an American-controlled civilization." Russia, he felt, was Britain's No. 1. Ally. ". . . It is the Russian cockerel which has saved the necks of the few chickens." > Conservative Sir Archibald Southby, apparently giddy with Lend-Lease, said: "It might have been better if the United States had augmented the defenses of those vitally important places [Far Eastern bases] rather than expend time and material in creation of the bases which we leased them in the West Indies and Newfoundland." > Laborite Richard Rapier Stokes: "I hate...
...tons of raw sugar to the U.S. this year, may not be able to supply any; 2) vastly increased needs for alcohol for smokeless powder (see p. 66) may throw all the supply figures galley west; 3) nobody knows how much sugar the U.S. may have to Lend-Lease to Britain, the U.S.S.R., other allies. But the Commodity Research Bureau last week estimated minimum raw-sugar supplies for 1942 of 4,575,000 short tons, not counting any at all from Hawaii or the Philippines. This, added to the estimated carryover of 3,786,000 tons, amounts to 5% more...