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...agreement with Russia was in process of fulfillment. Nearly all goods shipped to date were of the immediately expendable type (planes, trucks, food). But the emphasis was shifting. Unofficial reports said present negotiations stressed goods that may outlast the war (railroad equipment, machinery, etc.). These goods would not be "lent," they would be sold on terms like those of the new French Lend-Lease agreement (30 years to pay with interest...
Henry Kaiser added that furthermore, he and not DPC, owns Fontana, even if the Reconstruction Finance Corp. holds a $110,000,000 mortgage. Although RFC lent him the cash to build the plant, it cannot take over unless he stops paying it back. This he does not intend...
...National Gallery in Washington, which had never lent one of its Mellon paintings, finally yielded to Chicago cajoling, sent Gilbert Stuart's Portrait of Mrs. Richard Yates in a Pullman drawing room with the National Gallery assistant director for company...
...Magic Flute had roused admiration and curiosity. But until this week, almost none of her phonographic fans had heard her in the flesh. When she walked on Carnegie Hall's stage and launched into Lucia's Mad Scene and an assortment of Mozart and Verdi fireworks, they lent attentive ears. Soprano Korjus flatted on a couple of high notes, sang a phrase or two off pitch. Her high Ds and Fs were a little strident. But she handled most of her arias with grace and ease. By the intermission, her fans had already reached a verdict: Miliza Korjus...
...call the attention of my fellow countrymen to the intrigues of the enemy and of traitors. They are spreading all sorts of malicious rumors, predicting that there would be civil war and disunity in China. . . . I am afraid that some foreign commentators, unfamiliar with the real background, have also lent themselves unwittingly to a wider circulation of such rumors...