Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Butler's figures, said Tennessee's testy Kenneth McKellar, were 95% wrong. In the past three years, the U.S. has spent-aside from purchases of strategic materials -only $324 million. Cut out military and naval appropriations, and Lend-Lease paid back, and the Good Neighbor bill would come to only $178 million, McKellar said -not $6 billion...
...coming into an election year, when passions and prejudices are likely to be accentuated. ... If we lend ourselves to breaking up . . . into partisan groups and cliques, we are playing into the hands of the enemy. More than that, we are jeopardizing our entire national future. Many of us in the '30s feared that a left-wing reaction would draw labor so far away from the main body of American sentiment that the gap could not be closed without a disastrous struggle. ... I am deeply alarmed today over the possibility that a right-wing reaction may draw some sections...
Your timely statement on Lend-Lease (TIME, Nov. 22) covers but briefly the situation under so much discussion by wiseacre stay-at-homes...
...From the Lend-Lease standpoint, the American troops in the China-Burma-Indian theater are deeply indebted to the British...
...insistence upon payments for Lend-Lease. N.A.M. plumped for writing off all Lend-Lease balances over a period of 25 years, with "payment" confined to anticartel agreements, equal access to the world's raw materials, airways...