Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen by stating flatly that the famous Communist Eighth Route Ar my had never fought the Japanese. Asked why the Japanese continually reported clashes with the Communists, he snapped: "If you believe the Japs, why is America fighting Japan?" Lo Tse-kai denied that his troops had ever received Lend-Lease aid, though as he spoke a flight of U.S.-built planes roared overhead, enroute to the Honan front...
World War II has already cost U.S. taxpayers $184 billion-the cost of World War I was only $32 billion. Lend-Lease has passed $24 billion. In addition, the U.S. has shipped abroad 60 million tons of supplies for our troops. Although some of it was food, oil, other expendable items, a great deal will still be whole and usable after the war is over-tanks, jeeps, guns, trucks, tools, vast bakeries and all the other heavy equipment needed by armies to fight and live. No one can predict how much will be destroyed, but the leftover pile is sure...
...movie tycoons, representing, in effect, the U.S. and British movie industries, last week reached an important decision. Instead of fighting each other in world markets - wherein Hollywood now has a virtual monopoly and the British have high hopes - they agreed henceforth to lend each other a helping hand. This was top-rank international business news...
...thirds of the population do not know that the U.S. has received reverse Lend-Lease aid from Britain...
...years old. The elders believe in long engagements; not until the girls are ten or eleven, and old enough to make tortillas, are they permitted to marry. The Lacandones are polygamous in theory. In practice, the scarcity of women limits most of them to one wife. Husbands sometimes lend their wives to distinguished callers, are much upset if the offer is refused...