Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torrent of Lend-Lease has apparently passed its peak. Month by month since August the flow of weapons, food and clothing to 33 Lend-Lease nations has steadily declined. Alternately, the stream of reverse Lend-Lease (TIME, Nov. 22) has just as steadily swelled, has already topped...
...troops and his opponents'. The difference was that Napoleon's achievements in both politics and warfare were hailed by most commentators, beginning with himself, while Wellington, who refused to have books written about his battles, was discredited. The incessant stream of Napoleonic propaganda that flowed in a torrent from the 19th into the 20th Century undermined Wellington's military reputation: "There is something disquieting," says Author Aldington, "about the almost fanatical boosting of the arch dictator throughout the period which was at least pretending to apply the principles of democracy...
...edit the cables from Ingraham, Hersey and Belden, to piece together the torrent of news pouring in over our AP wires, to supervise the writing of all our invasion stories-all this is part of the Battlefronts assignment of Senior Editor Charles Wertenbaker, whose own first hand feel of the invasion news comes from three months at the front with the American troops now fighting in Sicily...
...trickle of U.S. Lend-Lease aid which began in March 1941 has swelled into a mighty torrent. Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr. an nounced that in March 1943 Lend-Lease exports reached $708,000,000, highest monthly total to date. Russia now receives 31% of the total aid ("the overwhelming majority of supplies are arriving"), the United Kingdom, 38%. At the end of March, two years after the program be gan, the total value of Lend-Lease aid had reached...
Burning the State Department's hands since mid-March has been a voluminous report on working conditions in Bolivia. In Washington and La Paz, officials debated whether to suppress it or release it, and perhaps bring down a torrent of criticism on 1) Bolivia, and 2) Tin King Simon I. Patino, whose miners precipitated the whole business by striking four months ago (TIME...