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
“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
House gave final passage Thursday to legislation that would streamline a World War II-era military lend-lease program to more quickly provide Ukraine and other Eastern European countries with American equipment to fight the Russian invasion.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
The lend-lease concept does not appear to be used or even discussed in the Ukrainian conflict.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2022
Credits are also being negotiated with lend-lease countries to finance the disposition of lend-lease inventories and installations and property declared to be surplus.
From State of the Union Address by Harry S. Truman
Selznick lend-leased Hitchcock to-20th Century-Fox to make Lifeboat for $200,000.
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
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
Ltd. as a quid pro quo for lend-leased U.S. oil, but had backed down before Teheran.
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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