Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington the fourth Lend-Lease agreement with Russia was in process of fulfillment. Nearly all goods shipped to date were of the immediately expendable type (planes, trucks, food). But the emphasis was shifting. Unofficial reports said present negotiations stressed goods that may outlast the war (railroad equipment, machinery, etc.). These goods would not be "lent," they would be sold on terms like those of the new French Lend-Lease agreement (30 years to pay with interest...
When El Salvador last year overthrew her Theosophist-Dictator Maximiliano Martinez, she breathed a brief moment of freedom. It ended when Osmin Aguirre battered his way to power with the help of Lend-Lease arms. Hope rose again when all the nations of the Hemisphere (except dictator-ruled Nicaragua and Honduras) refused to recognize him. Chilled, he moderated his severity, staged Castaneda's election. Seemingly, he was forced to retreat toward democracy...
...least five U.S. firms are now producing Bailey bridge parts for the Army and Lend-Lease, but none sees a bright postwar future for it. At 12½? a foot, a Bailey costs twice as much as a conventionally built steel bridge. But in flood country, where bridge washouts are frequent, Baileys may well be kept tucked away for emergency...
Last week William Wyer, 49, the alert, calculating chief executive officer of C.N.J., decided to resort to some fancy bookkeeping, thereby transferring the operations and a fleet of C.N.J.'s engines and cars to C.R.P. He would also lend C.R.P. $750,000 for working capital. Then little C.R.P. would collect the $16-odd million of freight earnings on Pennsylvania coal, pay its earnings to C.N.J. either as dividends or as rent for the use of its tracks and leased lines, thus avoid the Jersey tax. All that stood between Boss Wyer and this relatively ideal situation was court approval...
Fast, fluent, implausible yarn of amorous and political intrigue inside Turkey, featuring an American girl with a past, a British intelligence agent, a Nazi provocateur, a Hungarian harlot, and the Lend-Lease Administration...