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

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

Even today we are flying as much lend-lease material into China as ever traversed the Burma Road, flying it over mountains 17,000 feet high, flying blind through sleet and snow.

From State of the Union Address by Roosevelt, Franklin Delano