Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tanks & Locusts. This was measured, not by the President, but by white-thatched Edward R. Stettinius Jr., 43, who ran Lend-Lease from August 1941 until it merged with Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration last September. Now Under Secretary of State, Stettinius this week published a fat, 358-page book, Lend-Lease: Weapon for Victory (MacMillan; $3). (Although he signed and sweated over it, the book is actually the joint effort of Stettinius and some 50 others in & out of Lend-Lease, with a final polish by professional writers.) Straightforward, barren of "inside information," the book offers...
...planes were Lend-Leased. The greatest number went to Russia. Lend-Lease also accounted for 38 out of every 100 tanks the U.S. produced, $9 out of every $100 worth of machine tools, four out of every 100 bbl. of petroleum products...
...When a Biblical plague of locusts swept the food lands of the Middle East in 1942, threatening disaster to General Montgomery's drive against Rommel, Lend-Lease rushed planes, technicians and insecticides to the scene. They gave the area its first lesson in scientific insect control, and saved the larder of the Eighth Army. >When Axis propaganda implied that Polish and Yugoslav prisoners of the Axis had been forgotten by the United Nations while British and American prisoners received food packets monthly, Lend-Lease acted. It now supplies 56,000 Polish and 140,000 Yugoslav prisoners with an eleven...
Give & Take. Author Stettinius has some meaty facts for famine shouters, who have loudly blamed Lend-Lease for U.S. food shortages. Said he: "In the overall picture the Lend-Lease slice of American food has been small-6% in 1942 and about 10% in 1943. In crucial items the percentage has been even smaller . . . half a pound of beef out of every hundred pounds, three quarts of milk in a hundred, one of every 100 cans of vegetables...
...think we have got our money's worth in more than double measure. The total impact of Lend-Lease on our economy has been relatively small. The dividends it has paid have been enormous...