Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last winter, only four per cent of the lease-lend cargoes were lost. The principal danger to Britain lay in the cumulative shipping losses. But Churchill now proclaims that there has been a sixty-six per cent reduction in these losses. Land states that ships are being built at least as fast as they are being sunk. Britain's food reserves have reached a new high. There is no need to send American ships into the war zones, and if there were, the ships should simply be given to the British...
Rationed Britain got good news about its food supply last week. Last month bushy-browed, eagle-beaked Minister of Food Frederick James Marquis, Baron Woolton, promised that rationing would be relaxed. Last week he explained his promise: U.S. food is pouring into Britain. U.S. Lend-Lease supplies now provide Britain with five or six per cent of her total foodstuffs, a full 25% of her animal proteins. Greater quantities are expected...
Founder, first president and first conductor of the Philharmonic was Ureli Corelli Hill, a Connecticut Yankee given to rash business ventures (once the orchestra had to lend him nearly all its sinking fund). Hill ended as an extra at Wallack's Theater, killed himself (with morphine) at 73, writing: "Ha, ha! The sooner I go the better...
Interventionist sentiment reached a record high (84%) in September after the Navy was ordered to shoot. The important questions now are 1) whether debate over the dangers of arming merchant ships and modifying the Neutrality Act will set back interventionist sentiment as debate over the Lend-Lease bill did last February; 2) whether news from Russia will aggravate or offset the decline...
...price of zinc was 4.72 a lb. and U.S. production was 41,000 tons. Then the price rose to 7.25?, where it has been pegged by voluntary agreement for a year. Production rose too-to an all-time high of 75,524 tons last August. But for civilian requirements, Lend-Lease and the Army (brass cartridge cases) the U.S. now needs about 97,000 tons a month...