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...said silver-haired Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr. this week as he submitted to Congress the first fully documented overall report on Lend-Lease operations. In the 21 months since its beginning in March 1941, the report showed, the total value of Lend-Lease expenditures in goods and services to 30 of the United Nations was $8,233,000,000-or 13% of total U.S. war expenditures. The stream of goods to the U.S. Allies had increased month by month until October 1942, when it dropped off-presumably because of the U.S. offensive in North Africa...
Reciprocity. The report was obviously submitted in anticipation of a searching Congressional inquiry of Lend-Lease agreements-which must be renewed next June-and Administrator Stettinius took considerable pains to show that Lend-Lease works both ways. Said...
Flow & Future. Conferring at the White House, Franklin Roosevelt and Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius were mightily pleased. The flow of arms had only begun: their next report would be better than this one, and the one after that even better...
Appointed assistant to Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Major General Charles Macon Wesson (ret.), ex-Chief of Ordnance...
Before Pearl Harbor synthetic rubber was regarded as the average man regards his life insurance: protection against the unthinkable. NDAC's Ed Stettinius pleaded for 100,000 tons of insurance. But to Jesse Jones the rates seemed too high. They obviously were too high for large-scale private investment so long as Buna-S cost 25-35? a Ib. and natural rubber, even at war-kited rates, only 20?. In May 1941, the same day that his RFC head. Emil Schram, told Congress "I think we will have to start rationing rubber very soon," Jesse himself said: "Unless...