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Word: lende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whilefoodstuffs and other agricultural products make up 16% of all Lend-Lease transfers, they amounted to only 8% of U.S. total food production in 1944; Lend-Lease shipments of beef were only seven-tenths of 1% of U.S. 1944 supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEND-LEASE: Percentagewise | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...Munitions make up 58% of all Lend-Lease, but shipments abroad have been only 14% of total U.S. production. Another 2% was sold to the Allies; 84% has been kept for U.S. forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEND-LEASE: Percentagewise | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...Shipments of petroleum products (5% of total Lend-Lease transfers) amounted to less than one-tenth of U.S. production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEND-LEASE: Percentagewise | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...Total Lend-Lease shipments of cigarets in 1944 were equivalent to one cigaret a week for each adult U.S. civilian; for every cigaret exported under Lend-Lease, 26 were sent to U.S. forces overseas, 55 were smoked at home. Why U.S. soldiers did not get theirs in the quantity set forth in the report was a question Mr. Crowley did not attempt to meet: soldiers in France and England would have to ask the Army Service Forces and the black marketeers in France for the answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEND-LEASE: Percentagewise | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...treasure house of Africa. The Arabian Sea (northern part of the Indian Ocean) and the Persian Gulf flank India, reach into some of the world's richest oil areas, and may yet be Russian outlets to the south -as, until recently, they were Russia's inlet for Lend-Lease. And adjoining the Arab heartland lie Turkey and Iran - both Mos em but non-Arab -looking out on the Black Sea and the Caspian, which wash at Russia's outward gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Desert Wind | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

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