Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What about the future? The ever-expanding Army, which got 7½% of U.S. food in 1942, would need 14% in 1943; Lend-Lease would need more. But War Food Administration was asking 16 million more acres in crops than in 1943. And any warning of meat famine was "loose talk...
...Although some critics regard Dewey as an opportunist who jumped on the internationalist bandwagon after the horses were in full gallop, he was never really an "isolationist." He concedes: "Certainly I have changed my views on foreign policy. Everyone has." But he favored Lend-Lease, military preparedness, decided before Pearl Harbor that the U.S. would have to go to war. His ambiguous record as a Presidential candidate in 1940 was dictated by 1) his emotional distaste for war ("I suppose at heart I am really a pacifist") and 2) political caution...
...crowd gathered, threw rocks, splashed hot coffee on the flyers, shouted "Schwein," worked up a lynching temper. The guards motioned to the prisoners to follow, started dodging through blacked-out alleys toward a police station. Another crowd blocked the way, and one or two of the soldiers offered to lend the prisoners revolvers if shooting started. It did not, but Benny was sure the civilians would have killed him if they had got the chance...
...Commerce Department reported a boom in domestic tax-paid consumption, 180,000,000,000 cigarets in 1940 to an estimated 300,000,000,000 this, year, with tax-free exports, Lend-Lease and cigarets for the armed forces adding to demand. The department noted that manufacturers had already dipped into their 1944 and 1945 supply (curing requires two or three years). Adding this all up, the Commerce Department concluded: there will be a shortage of cigarets...
...will still leave them with more than 20 months' supply. While they customarily cure tobacco 24 to 30 months, they could use tobacco cured only 18 months in a pinch, with no harm to the U.S. throat. (The British use tobacco cured for only a year.) Despite heavy Lend-Lease requirements, total U.S. exports are down 4.5% from prewar years...