Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some American to be Man of 1941. Of the actual accomplishments of 1941 the most striking was the very real beginning made in turning the U.S. into the arsenal for all the democracies. Credit for that accomplishment belongs rather to U.S. businessmen than to SPAB or OPM or Lend-Lease Administration. The plants that were built, the planes and tanks which were actually turned out were planned and executed by businessmen...
...people who believed that the size of the plant meant nothing unless a genuine national unity powered the turning wheels, another type of American was Man of the Year-Wendell Willkie, who in 1941 went to England as a defeated candidate and came back arguing for the Lend-Lease Bill; in tune with the year, he had gone on fighting as if he refused to admit that his defeat had taken place...
...behind-the-scenes operators in Chinese politics. In Washington he and Ambassador Hu Shih have worked as a team for a year and a half. While Hu Shih ambassadored, made speeches, held the diplomatic front, T. V. in liaison with New Dealer Lauchlin Currie plowed through War Department and Lend-Lease red tape, squeezed supplies for warring China out of reluctant committees...
...more incredible to those who recalled that the farmers had been notoriously excluded from the 1940 boom. Then came Lend-Lease, and with it Secretary Wickard's appeal for huge quantities of dairy, poultry and pork products. Although the wheat, cotton and corn surpluses remained oppressive, the demands for food crops had begun a price rise, which the Congressional hayseeds, smelling Utopia, quickly climbed aboard. It took a Roosevelt veto to stop them from freezing the surpluses; but nothing could stop them from raising the floor under farm prices, nor from demolishing Leon Henderson's gingerly attempts...
Turkey. To pious, fatalistic President Ismet Inönü of Turkey, the U.S. entry into war has brought added unease. Having repeated that Turkey was neutral, partially deaf Ismet Inönü expediently turned his bad ear to German protests that his acceptance of Lend-Lease aid was unneutral. But he could hear clearly enough reports from Turkey's Bulgarian border that Germany was increasing her gasoline stocks and working feverishly on air bases in Bulgaria. Turkey awaited her Kismet (fate) and wondered about rumors that Chief of Staff General Fevzi Cakmak was partial to the Axis...