Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handsome Ed Stettinius thus became the next-to-youngest Secretary of State in U.S. history.* A onetime big-business executive, specializing as a front man (General Motors, North American Aviation, U.S. Steel), he learned the basics of government protocol in NIRA, OPM, Lend-Lease. He has been learning diplomacy as Under Secretary of State since September 1943. Few doubted that under his regime the real Secretary of State would continue to be Franklin Roosevelt...
...banners emblazoned with new Yugoslavia's red star, Russia's hammer & sickle. Big pictures of Russia's Stalin, Yugoslavia's Tito stared side by side from every shop window. The grey-clad troops of the Red Army rolled ceaselessly toward the Hungarian front in U.S. Lend-Lease trucks. Overhead, Russian Stormoviks and Yaks roared...
Britain. British manufacturers who have received $120,000,000 of U.S. Lend-Lease machine tools are dissatisfied with the probable terms of payment. At war's end the U.S. may ask for full payment, minus depreciation. The British manufacturers, who claim that the U.S. machines cost twice as much as British machines, hoped that settlement would be based on the British value...
...swallowed his pride in dealings with the Americans before. He had agreed to let General Stilwell supervise the distribution of U.S. Lend-Lease in China...
Such a condition had been imposed on no other head of a foreign state. The implication was that Chiang Kai-shek could not be trusted with Lend-Lease...