Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations in international commerce would have equal landing rights in duly designated international airports, both in the U.S. and abroad. But plane travel between a nation's cities would be restricted to that nation's own planes. As a method of enforcing this, the N.A.M. suggested that lend-lease balances owed the U.S. be canceled progressively as long as debtor nations complied...
...seat to which young (43) Wayne Morse may aspire is now warmed by the hulking bulk of Rufus C. Holman, 66, paper-box manufacturer and Old Guard Republican, chiefly distinguished in the Senate for his opposition to Lend-Lease and for labor-baiting. Rumbling Rufus Holman has not yet disclosed his 1944 intentions; if he runs for reelection, he is certain of the solid backing of the Oregon G.O.P. machine...
...such ultra-slick modern methods, the MNR (Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario) came into pow er in Bolivia. The rebels dashed about in Lend-Lease jeeps, invaded the homes of Government leaders and dragged them off to prison. Pro-U.S. President Enrique Peñaranda was later exiled to Chile. His 80-year-old mother died of fright. Two of Bolivia's three great tin barons, Mauricio Hochschild and Carlos Victor Aramayo, went into hiding. The greatest, Simon I. Patino, was safe in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, where he refused to answer the telephone...
...turned to an exploration of future British policy. What startled the incredulous Nancy was the way Tories, Independents, Laborites agreed that Britain must: 1) revive its faith in the Commonwealth, take steps to strengthen and streamline it; 2) extend the Commonwealth to the little democracies of Western Europe, lend every aid to rebuild France so that she "can have an honored place in the group...
...Jamaica the words "white" and "colored" are not used, color distinctions are not recognized. It is a Jamaican nightmare that Lend-Lease will finally put the island under U.S. control, which would introduce the hated U.S. color line...