Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retired to civilian life, General Deane was head of the U.S. Military Mission to Moscow, 1943-45. As such he was senior U.S. military officer in the Soviet Union, coordinating land, sea, air and Lend-Lease activities. In almost every respect, he reports, the Russians acted as friends and allies only when it suited their purpose. Most of the time they played hard-to-get, wore a surly, suspicious look, now & then did not even trouble to acknowledge official letters. Then suddenly they would be all smiles and dazzlingly amiable gestures, complete with vodka and caviar...
...Come out flatly against overspending for veterans' emergency housing. (Allen's refusal to lend $32 million to the fledgling Lustron Corp. to build metal prefabricated houses precipitated the Administration battle that ended with the ousting of Housing Director Wilson Wyatt...
...this time it looked as if Howard Hughes might have pulled one monkey-shine too many. A lot of people in & out of T.W.A. were getting fed up. One was CAB Chairman James M. Landis. Others were officials of RFC, who had practically promised early this year to lend T.W.A. $60,000,000. But RFC was smarter than it had been when it sank $19½ million into Hughes's 750-passenger "Hercules." With the "Hercules" some two years be hind schedule, RFC's faith in Hughes was dwindling...
Both countries were happy over the deal, biggest of its kind in South America's history. The long-sought Cordillera Libre, a sort of limited trans-Andean customs union,* was established. Argentina agreed to lend Chile $175,000,000-$75 million for improving Chile's rail, road and sea links with Argentina, $75 million for Chilean industrial development, the rest for a revolving credit to get trade started...
Wall Streeters gossiped that Dillon, Read & Co. and the Chase National Bank had also had a hand in moving Coulter out. Dillon, Read had agreed to underwrite a $6.5 million stock issue and Chase had agreed to lend Western up to $7.5 million-on condition that the stock issue brought in the proposed $6.5 million. (Coulter will stay on as director but will sell his 240,210 shares of stock...