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Word: lende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next two days the President worked hard and long. Decisions came out: a shakedown in the State Department, a swift end to Lend-Lease, authority for the War Labor Board to relax wage controls (Little Steel was now a broken yardstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Week of Decision | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...almost an hour President Truman listened hard to the arguments for extension of Lend-Lease. There were reasons for an immediate decision: 1) China had made a formal request for extension, and its Premier Dr. T. V. Soong was waiting on the doorstep (see FOREIGN NEWS); 2) Charles de Gaulle, reaching the door step this week, would doubtless bring up the question; 3) Britain, normally the best U.S. customer, could not buy heavily in the U.S. market without help in putting its own economy in order; 4) Russia, potentially a good customer, had already asked for $6 billion of postwar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEND-LEASE: After $40 Billion Worth | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Bankers & Budgets. Minnie Guggenheimer, who has had to make up losses every year before, is rich, and she knows people who are. In fact, she started the concerts for World War I doughboys by persuading a friend and distant inlaw, the late millionaire-banker Adolph Lewisohn, to lend her the football stadium he built for the City College of New York. She also lined up the Lewisohn family as her biggest financial contributors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stormy Weather | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Last week Braniff doggedly brought into the open the vital question: who owns and controls international airports in the Western Hemisphere? Cried Braniff Vice President Douglas Stockdale: "These airports were built as military bases for continental defense under the lend-lease laws of the United States. . . . They are considered by the military authorities of Mexico as property of the Government and neither can nor should be considered as exclusive property of C.M.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flare-Up in Mexico | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...interview with the SERVICE NEWS, Mesbahzadeh former head of the Department of Information and Propaganda in Iran, emphasized the extent to which Iran has contributed to the war-effort by transporting more than 6,000,000 tons of lend-lease material to Russia over their only railroad, which runs from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea passing through Teheran...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IRANIAN EDITOR VOICES HOPE FOR U.S. HELP IN MIDDLE EAST | 8/9/1945 | See Source »

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