Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles (see p. 10) gave out the news in Washington. Curious reporters immediately wanted to know: Did President Roosevelt's Lend-Lease Administrator's visit to Moscow mean that Russia would get aid under the Lend-Lease Act? No, no, said Sumner Welles. The Russians had plenty of cash in the U.S.* to pay for what they bought; let's not talk about their credit...
...cookstoves, canned food, medicines, bandages, checkerboards, paper-covered libraries ranging from Shakespeare to whodunits, wireless telephones to call for aid, framed instructions on how to use the equipment. Says the placard: "Air Sea Rescue Service hopes you will be comfortable and that your stay will be short." Navy launches visit the floats to pick up shipwrecked airmen...
...arrive in Buenos Aires and drink your 'good neighbor' whiskey in a friendly atmosphere. You visit our capital city, and you return to the White House to tell Mr. Roosevelt...
Suddenly last weekend the pressure slackened. For no announced reason the Germans canceled a visit by Economist Karl Clodius, who was scheduled to go to Ankara to negotiate a ?25,000,000 trade pact. Best guess was that the pressure would stay off Turkey until the Germans made a stronger showing in Russia...
...Carl Milles, works not only in soap but in wood, bronze, stone. A soap carving got him his first art fellowship. Sculptor Anthony did his prize-winning piece, a refugee couple bowed under their burdens, in two hours. He took a bar of soap along when he went to visit a friend who had had his tonsils out, whittled away while he talked...