Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clair, possibly the most brilliant of all directors of fiction films. In 1938 he signed with David O. Selznick, because he thought Selznick produced Hollywood's best pictures. But he takes no back talk from Selznick. As a result, he fares better than any other Selznick property. Selznick lend-leased Hitchcock to-20th Century-Fox to make Lifeboat for $200,000. Hitch pocketed...
Private U.S. foreign traders in 1943 exported $2.5 billion of goods, imported more than $2 billion worth - mostly to & from Latin America and Canada. This, despite mountains of red tape, war-gutted markets, last year's shipping shortage and the monstrous competition of Lend-Lease, almost equaled the average of the nation's foreign trade during the 1930-40 decade...
Last week in Manhattan almost 2,000 exporters and importers heard Foreign Economic Administrator Leo T. Crowley promise that this year more of the titanic flow of overseas shipments now dominated by Lend-Lease and other economic warfare agencies will be diverted to private channels. And, added Crowley, in his first public declaration of policy since taking office last July, the dark suspicion that the Government is in foreign trade to stay is unwarranted. As quickly as the Government can step out, postwar world markets will be open to private trade. Traders began figuring that business...
...this was in preparation for the day when Britain (in return for more than a billion dollars in Lend-Lease) will send two cruisers and possibly two escort carriers to the Dominion's navy. Another of Percy Nelles' hopes had been fulfilled...
Like the President, Author Stettinius firmly believes that Lend-Lease will open a new era of postwar trade. But will the dispatch of such Lend-Lease materials as machine tools to England, of complete plants and refineries to Russia, mean serious competition for the postwar U.S.? Under Secretary Stettinius is not worried. He wrote: "What have we to fear? The United States should be the last country in the world to fear competition after the war is won. . . . We shall have by far the greatest industrial power, immense material resources, a country undamaged by the enemy, businessmen who can stand...