Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Experience. "The people of the United States will decide this fall whether they wish to turn over this 1944 job, this world-wide job, to inexperienced or immature hands, to those who opposed lend-lease and international cooperation . . . until they could read the polls of popular sentiment; or whether they wish to leave it to those who saw the danger from abroad, and met it headon...
Even after the Soviet Union began taking Lend-Lease equipment from the U.S., the Russians continued to be suspicious, closemouthed. With the turn of the tide in the Allied fortunes, the Russian reluctance to disclose information has just perceptibly relaxed. Though they still do not publicize their late warplane types, as the U.S. does, the main outlines of Russian air development have become fairly clear...
...time the unfriendly warm weather returned, Lend-Lease planes were beginning to arrive from the U.S. and England. But from northern Norway and Finland, the Luftwaffe was taking terrific toll of the Allied convoys plying to Murmansk. Much Lend-Lease shipping for Russia had to be rerouted the dismally long way around to the Persian Gulf. The Russians hung on. They dismantled the aircraft factories which lay in the path of the Wehrmacht, moved them far to the rear and reassembled them there...
...Stalingrad, the Nazis still had air superiority. But as the tide of the whole war turned at Stalingrad, the tide of the air turned also. The Russians were getting more planes from their factories as well as by Lend-Lease. They were getting shrewder designs, better-trained air fighters. The U.S. and British air forces were beginning to grind down the Luftwaffe in its factories and in the air. As the great counteroffensive rolled westward, the Russians achieved something like air equality...
Beef-loving, beef-rationed Britain last week made a deal to take all the Canadian beef that Canada can ship overseas in 1944 and 1945. Canada will finance a large part of the cost out of her own version of Lend-Lease (Mutual Aid). The Dominion was glad to do so, for the deal was a good thing for both countries...