Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lend-lease - Final Score...
Last week, while the U.S. Congress higglehaggled over a proposed $3.75 billion loan to the British (see INTERNATIONAL), the Dominion agreed to lend Britain a billion and a quarter dollars as soon as the Parliaments of both countries ratified the deal. Terms: repayment in 50 years, at 2% interest, beginning in 1951. In addition, Canada canceled a whopping British debt: $425,000,000 incurred when Canada housed and trained British flyers during the war under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Moreover, Canada agreed to settle, for $150,000,000, all big & little "known & unknown" claims that resulted from an intermeshed...
...taxpayer with a sizable new burden: he would have to pay all the interest himself, some $30,000,000 a year, until 1951; after that he would have to pay an estimated $12,000,000 a year interest (because Canada would borrow the money from banks at about 3%, lend it to Britain...
...Karlov, they were curtly told to stay away from Red Army installations. At the end of the interview, Karlov told newsmen: "We have no machines to take you back to the hotel." At 10 below zero, they trudged the three miles back through the snow. Several noted that U.S. Lend-Lease trucks and cars, with the Soviet star on them, passed them...
...help win the war, the U.S. sent Russia some $10,800,000,000 worth oi Lend-Lease supplies. To help the Russians understand their American allies better the U.S. last year launched two Russian-language magazines, produced by OWI and sold throughout the U.S.S.R. Amerika was pocket-size, crammed with informative, uplifting articles. Appearing in alternate months, as a change of diet, was a handsome, 80-page, slick-paper, LiFE-size magazine called Amerika Illiustrirovannoye (America Illustrated...