Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Journey to Moscow. When war began to engulf the U.S., Franklin Roosevelt called on Harriman's services more & more, finally sent him to London to coordinate the vast operations of Lend-Lease. In October 1943, after months of harrying toil and travel, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Russia...
...perhaps a bit late to be making pictures dramatizing the winning of the war, but it is worthwhile waiting for the return of such veteran Hollywood operators as John Ford and Robert Montgomery to lend an authentic and competent touch to cinema versions of the great battles. It would have been worth while, that is, if the producers of "They Were Expendable" had refrained from turning William L. White's stirring narrative of the mosquito boat war into the usual run of synthetic melodrama...
...lawn amid trees, as it was originally intended to do, and still serves as a dwelling house. The beauty of this old house and the sense of openness which its grounds give to its corner of the Yard not only constitute an invaluable link with Harvard's past but lend a warm homely quality to an otherwise coldly institutional group of buildings...
...Reverse Lend-Lease added up to $6,256,000,000; most of it, $4,000,000,000, came from Britain. The rest of the Lend-Lease balance will probably be written off as one of the least costly payments on the price of victory...
Disposal of Army & Navy surplus property abroad is going so badly that the U.S. has decided to lend foreign governments the money to buy it. So the Foreign Liquidation Commission reluctantly admitted last week. Already being discussed are 3O-year loans totaling $210 million: $100 million to Russia, $50 million each to Poland and Czechoslovakia, $10 million to Finland. Specifically for the purchase of surplus, they would be apart from the big overall U.S. loans now being discussed (see INTERNATIONAL...