Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heroes. In February and March they fought against Lend-Lease, shouting that the President was carrying the country into war. In May, they rose in protest against the President's request for authority to take over 500,000 tons of Axis shipping tied up in U.S. ports. In hot midsummer, their volleys and thunders reached a climax. By a hair, by the margin of one vote, they just failed to wreck the country's fumbling efforts to raise an army. Extension of the draft finally passed the House...
...Lend-Lease officials pointed out that in the past few months 80% of traffic over the Road has been restricted to military needs...
...were freely handed out. But since there had been no overall measurement of supply & demand ("They kept raising the sights on us"), priorities orders were soon as unredeemable as Confederate money. Manufacturers, hot for certainty, began to hide and hoard materials; and Ed Stettinius was kicked upstairs to be Lend-Lease Administrator...
...buried treasure at Fort Knox by around 1,000 tons a year. To Britain this now means some $700,000,000 a year in dollar exchange. Gold production, thanks to U.S. gold-buying policy, is one of her chief sources of dollars; and Britain still needs dollars, despite Lend-Lease...
...mining gold and nothing else (the rest are in multi-metal mines), since Canadian base-metal production is still not all on a full capacity basis and other war industries are short of labor, a shift of gold labor would make sense. So far Canada has received no Lend-Lease aid, but presumably will when it runs short of dollars...