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...Roosevelt did not disclose the specific amounts promised or sent, nor the shipment routes (Archangel or Vladivostok-see map). But earlier he had told Congressional leaders that Russian armies were far from defeat; that the Russians would not sell out or make peace to avoid further battering, that the Russians would somehow last through the winter, that he believed they would withdraw behind the Volga River. He based his faith, he said, on Harry Hopkins' report from Russia, and on the estimated 40% of Russian manufacturing that lay in the Ural Mountains and eastward...
...train in the '60s, each Clipper arrival is big news. In Manila, society weddings are timed to coincide with the arrival by Clipper of New York bridesmaids' gowns. A game at the Manila Polo Club was on schedule recently because a box of polo balls, delayed in shipment, was replaced by another brought by Clipper...
President Roosevelt got his incident last week-the incident he has been expecting ever since he stretched the Hemisphere patrol to Iceland. This week he got the incident he has been waiting for since he stretched the shipment of U.S. war materials...
...deal on freight rates. The roads offered roughly a 50% cut in their present tariffs, which are currently about six times the tanker rates. The oil companies, hoping for a bigger rate cut, dickered with each other on ways to prorate among themselves the higher cost of rail shipment. Once the price deal is made the carriers will get their chance to prove what they can do - and the whole East will cheer for it nervously...
...based was obviously untrue: no cash changes hands in Lend-Lease transaction. The British cannot possibly charge such items, as Lend-Lease procedure is guided as much by what the U.S. needs as by what England needs, is concerned primarily with guns, tanks, planes, more & more with the direct shipment of foodstuffs...