Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years ago. In that time the budget doubled, with military expenditures accounting for nearly half of the total. Peron's schedule for air-base construction alone-most of it along the Brazilian and Paraguayan borders-will cost $250,000,000. Till last week the Central Bank would lend the Government no more than a tenth of its average revenue, or about $25,000,000 a year. Nationalization fixed that...
Example: Great Britain bought over $6,000,000,000 worth of surplus property and unused Lend-Lease materials for $650,000,000. Said the committee: "A poor bargain...
Trial Marriage. In Minneapolis, C. B. Hanscom refused to lend his lie detector to a young man who explained: "I've got some questions I want to ask her before we get married...
...take the liberty of correcting an inaccurate statement contained in your Feb. 11 issue, which stated . . . that "Great Britain got 69% [$30,269,210,000] of U.S. Lend-Lease. Of Reverse Lend-Lease, which added up to $6,256,000,000, most of it, $4,000,000,000, came from Britain...
...facts . . . are that not only Great Britain but the whole British Empire received 69%, and gave back $5,921,000,000 in Reverse Lend-Lease. This figure was 94.6% of all the Reverse Lend-Lease received...