Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Planes, tanks, guns, ships were in production. Plans to handle enemy aliens (see p. 12) were long ready. Under Lend-Lease a working alliance had long since been effected with Great Britain, Russia, China, the Dutch. The seizure of foreign shipping, the increase in the size of the Army, Navy, air forces, armored force-all these things had been anticipated. More might have been done, but a great deal had been done...
This feeling is nothing new. It was over a decade ago that the Japanese General Kiokatu Sato wrote a credo to which Admiral Yamamoto would certainly lend his every nerve...
Without the aid of weird musical effects and somber, "arty" camera angles, "Ladies in Retirement" packs as much terror and suspense as a dozen of Hollywood's more pretentious spinetinglers. There are a couple of shots of mist-covered marshes to lend atmosphere at the beginning, and the musical background does furnish a few minor chords at the right moments; otherwise the story moves along--with its train of sinister over-tones--of its own weight. The effect lies in the story itself, and in some excellent direction, not in the well-aimed camera that has made so many films...
...minor item in the bill is $1,556,496,246 in Lend-Lease money (including only $78,000,000 for Russia). Also in the bill is better than $1 billion for the Navy: for airplanes, arming of merchant ships...
...blueprint a world economic balance sheet on which all future allocations will be based, SPAB is compiling U.S. Army, Navy and military Lend-Lease requirements; OPA the U.S. domestic requirements; EDB, the requirements of the rest of the world. If, as subordinates suggest, EDB gets control of Lend-Lease and RFC foreign lending powers (especially of the Export-Import Bank), it will be the distribution center for all U.S.-controlled materials throughout the world...