Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Munich Senator Austin had been a valiant anti-isolationist. He had risked political extinction and the taunts of many a Republican colleague by fighting for a compulsory military training bill in 1940. When other Senators argued that Lend-Lease would surely lead the U.S. to war, Warren Austin replied: "There are many things worse than war. A world enslaved by Hitler is much worse than war; it is worse than death. And a country whose boys will not go out and fight to save Christianity and the principles of freedom-well, you won't find such boys...
...matter of charity, for the offending apparel had been bought by Iranian merchants in the U.S. and shipped to colleagues at home for resale. But Azerbaijan, while praising Franklin Roosevelt and his Lend-Lease, saw, under Truman, an evil policy shift for a sinister motive. The new U.S. line, said Azerbaijan, was "restriction of world trade to American monopoly, thus giving the Americans an opportunity to sell their secondhand clothes...
Canadians are pardonably proud that they paid for their own war without U.S. Lend-Lease aid. But not till last week did they learn how narrowly they had squeezed around the financial corner...
...Prices up 116% over 1940 levels had not yet started down. But banks were becoming cautious. Most of them now held their loans to about 35-50% of the purchase price. Thus buyers had to put up more cash. Example: last November on a $7,250 house banks would lend $3,600. Now the same house sells for $12,000, but most banks will lend only...
...chairman of the War Resources Board (1939), priorities director of OPM (1941), Lend-Lease administrator (1941-43), and Under Secretary of State (1943-44), he added an impressive governmental finish to his civilian luster...