Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extended his term illegally, also faced rebellion. Last week he suppressed a demonstration of students and citizens by shooting a few and arresting over 200. Across the Costa Rican border waited thousands of Nicaraguans, eager for a chance to invade their own country. Last week Dictator Somoza received 18 Lend-Lease airplanes from the U.S. They may aid him militarily, but cannot help him against the non-violent but powerful pressure of a brazos caídos strike...
...this respect the Stabilization Fund would be a kind of International Federal Reserve System. In temporary emergencies it could lend foreign currencies to nations which were momentarily hard pressed to meet payments in those currencies. This would save them from embargoing imports or from dumping their own currency and starting competitive currency depreciation. Its only counter to deep-rooted disequilibrium would be to change the par value of a currency...
...interpolated words, cabled to the U.S., had practically exploded in Washington. The shock was all the greater because numerous British experts in both the U.S. and Britain had slaved to gather material to make the speech a convincing show of U.S.-British good will, with accent on reverse Lend-Lease. Several versions of the speech were cabled back and forth, checked down to the last word. Minister Lyttelton promptly issued a statement explaining that his remarks were intended only as a compliment, but purple-tempered old Cordell Hull was not appeased. "In all my career," said one State Department oldtimer...
...Others are shifting uneasily behind their desks as they shuffle the piles of paper from the In-box to the Outbox. More & more U.S. businessmen feel that the U.S. is getting very close to the shift toward large-scale civilian production. And many a corporation had warned its lend-leased talent: come on back or stay away for good...
...most probable "developments": the pipeline may be resurrected as a project of U.S. oil companies with concessions in oil-rich Arabia. The U.S. would lend them an estimated $130-165 million to build the line from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, probably to Haifa in Palestine...