Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman had thus dispatched a crack team to what might well be the most important new listening post in Europe (see INTERNATIONAL). Laurence Steinhardt is a lawyer, economist and author. As ambassador to Russia (193941), he went through the blitz in Moscow, signed the first Lend-Lease agreement with the Russians. He likes them and they like him. In Washington, he is rated as a top-drawer U.S. diplomat...
...What did we lose, comrades? Is it necessary to remind me of the gulf between us and the capitalist world? On the other hand, there was Lend-Lease and there was a second front. It is not certain that we would have survived otherwise...
...second plane, piloted by Captain Francisco Ponce, buzzed over San Salvador. At dawn Pilot Ponce dived his Lend-Leased North American attack bomber straight at the National Police Barracks, killed six of the defenders with his ten bombs. Wounded by antiaircraft fire, he managed to fly on to the haven of a Guatemalan airfield. There he claimed that he had dropped his bombs in self-defense...
...French footed the bill for the most part, through reverse Lend-Lease. But in a France short of everything, the Army had to furnish materials, comb through the Nazi prisoners for skilled workmen, haul coal for the plants from northern France, even supply food...
...Board of Trade and Production Minister, rose elegantly. Rubber, he said, would be released for nipples, but "we cannot adopt the same policy for soothers [pacifiers]." The Minister explained: "Soothers are a means of deception to which, in view of the imminence of the general election, the Government cannot lend themselves...