lend-lease
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The bipartisan lend-lease proposal seeks to expedite the supply of American military weapons to head off an invasion.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 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
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 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The U.S. lend-leased a symphony conductor to the Commonwealth of Australia this week.
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
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
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
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