lend-lease
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Shmyhal also said the Ukrainian government had approved a request to the U.S. government for a "gas lend-lease" arrangement to help Ukraine through what he said would be the toughest heating season in its history.
From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2022
Launched during World War II, lend-lease signaled the U.S. would become what Franklin D. Roosevelt called the “arsenal of democracy” helping Britain and the allies fight Nazi Germany.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2022
“It’s easy for him to do it. And I think right now what we’re doing with supply and with lend-lease, with the financing is right.”
From Washington Times ● May 1, 2022
An example is the Senate’s recent unanimous approval of a lend-lease bill modeled on the law that enabled swift U.S. supply for the anti-Hitler coalition in Europe before the country entered World War II.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2022
During the war, 15 cents of each dollar of our war expenditures was for lend-lease aid.
From State of the Union Address by Harry S. Truman
Ltd. as a quid pro quo for lend-leased U.S. oil, but had backed down before Teheran.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before long more than 40,000 tons of silver, which cost the U.S. about $675,000,000, will be lend-leased to war plants for the duration.*
From Time Magazine Archive
And many a corporation had warned its lend-leased talent: come on back or stay away for good.
From Time Magazine Archive
Selznick lend-leased Hitchcock to-20th Century-Fox to make Lifeboat for $200,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.S. lend-leased a symphony conductor to the Commonwealth of Australia this week.
From Time Magazine Archive
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