Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plump, brilliant Geoffrey Crowther. editor of London's influential Economist, also edits Transatlantic on the side. Its purpose: to interpret Americans to Brit ons. In a recent issue of his monthly, Editor Crowther -appraised British and American attitudes toward each other in the dusk of Lend-Lease cancellation, Big Power troubles, hunger in Europe and plenty in America. What he had to say was still news last week in a U.S. playing host to Clement Attlee and negotiating a loan for Britain...
Like the Dutch in Indonesia (see above), the French were finding it far from easy to regain their grip on Indo-China. Here too the U.S. played an indirect somewhat reluctant role: the French were using Lend-Lease equipment against the natives...
...brought new markets : popcorn substituted for scarce candy, went over seas to lend a homey touch to military lite, was eaten in bars and cocktail lounges by a nation which was drinking with both hands. Result: unprocessed corn soared from the prewar price of $1.57 (for 100 Ibs.) to $3.86. From then on, Oklahoma farmers needed no more urging. Typical was 44-year-old Tom Earnest of Okfuskee County.' Tom Earnest had worked his way up from sharecropping "by trying things...
...press suddenly boiled with reports, speculation, protests about the doings in China (see FOREIGN NEWS). By what right were U.S. airmen, marines and sailors intervening in a civil war? And what of the British in Java, using U.S. Lend-Lease weapons with the labels removed...
...committee who blinked at this observation : Admiral King was famed during the war for keeping civilian noses out of admirals' business. They blinked again when orthodox Admiral King said he thought a single department would "lend itself to the dangers of orthodoxy." But they stopped blinking and began asking angry questions when the Admiral insisted that the Navy's postwar program was not to be "adjusted downward when the Army sees fit." At that point Ernie King had walked into the blades of one of the Army's best meat-chopper arguments: George Marshall had pointed...