Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misery of China's peasants, filth, disease, widespread begging, shocked raw young Americans. Their own discomforts -the mud, the lack of women, the food-rubbed them rawer still. They heard ugly stories-of Lend-Lease material being stored for use after the war instead of against the Jap, of hoarding and profiteering by merchants, of smuggling from India and trade with the Japanese, of excessive tax burdens on the peasants...
...sides. Big and arming Brazil gave a 100,000 conto loan ($5,170,000), gave President Morinigo a royal tour, offered freeport privileges at Santos on the open Atlantic. The U.S. has constructed a much-needed road in Paraguay, is building another, and has flooded the little country with Lend-Lease, doctors, agricultural experts and military technicians...
Temporarily, Faymonville was up. He was feted by the Russians, who considered him their No. 1 U.S. friend. But he made enemies among U.S. colleagues who did not enjoy the same prestige. Some of them wanted Faymonville to see U.S. Lend-Lease as a bargaining weapon to pry out Russia's suspiciously guarded military secrets. Faymonville said that this was beyond his purview...
...shore up the potentially shaky British financial position, Mr. Fraser would: 1) grant a $5,000,000,000 gold credit to Britain, 2) formally cancel World War I war debts, 3) establish a five-year moratorium on Lend-Lease repayments...
...first issue of TIME-in- Iran was printed in seven days by Persian and Armenian workmen bossed by a Turk interpreter on Indian and British papers run off from a German-made press-for distribution to American boys who are getting vital Lend-Lease war goods through to Russia. So I guess this new edition is a truly "international" magazine if ever there...