lend-lease

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Eighty years ago, the Soviet Union ground down German forces, using the U.S. lend-lease material, including 183,000 trucks received by the summer of 1943.

From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2023

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

That we're here is a sort of lend-lease in reverse, you might say.

From Dave Dawson at Casablanca by Bowen, Robert Sydney