Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hung on, "a confirmed enemy of the regime," rising higher & higher in the scale, until he was established on the "highest, fattest" Soviet level, with an automobile and a private Moscow apartment. U.S. entry into World War II gave him the chance he was waiting for. Talking over Lend-Lease with a foreign-trade official, he "carefully, skillfully . . . guided the conversation" until the official asked whether he would like to go to the U.S. to inspect Soviet Lend-Lease supplies. Finally he received his passport...
...Lend-Lease to Latin America, interrupted by war's end, would dry up officially on July 1. Should the U.S. continue to arm the hemisphere...
...Argentina's case was Perón's special representative, General Carlos von der Becke. The Argentine ex-Chief of Staff, who had backed the Nazis to win World War II, now asked for U.S. arms to bring Argentina's fighting strength up to that of Lend-Leased Brazil. (His admiration for U.S. weapons was not so cynical as some supposed; the effectiveness of U.S. planes and tanks had startled him out of his pre-D-day conviction that "Europe never could be invaded.") General Eisenhower received Von der Becke courteously, looked over his list...
...exception was A. P. Giannini's giant Bank of America. It has continued to lend the legal maximum of 60% of market value. Result: last April, Bank of America lent $26,996,000 in Los Angeles County while the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles lent only $2,399,000 (in 1941, Bank of America lent less than twice as much as Security-First National...
Coaches Jack MacDonald and Dick Ashley hope for large turnouts to lend impetus to the newly-planned summer soccer and tennis schedules. The booters will be battling for places on the regular fall eleven, while the netters will seek to match their successful record over the past spring's matches...