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lend-lease
(Level stress.)
= lease-lend. Also attrib. and in extended uses. Also as v. So lend-leased ppl. a.
1941Economist 15 Feb. 214/1 Future disposition of the armaments now being produced is before Congress in the ‘Lend-Lease’ Bill. 1942Times (Weekly ed.) 9 Sept. 9/2 Thousands of barrage balloons were lend-leased to the United States soon after Pearl Harbour. Ibid., Lend-leased British anti-aircraft guns help to defend American cities. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. (recto rear cover), The contribution of experienced pilots and planes in the fight to clear our side of the Atlantic is an element of the Lend-Lease programme in reverse. 1945W. S. Churchill Victory (1946) 178 Your friendship and great help as Lend-Lease Administrator and Secretary of State will always be remembered with gratitude. 1949I. Deutscher Stalin 512 More than 400,000 lorries were supplied to Russia under Lend-Lease. 1951Koestler Age of Longing i. 18 Your hand, my child, is on lend-lease to a vicious old man. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Oct. 625/1 Great Britain has undertaken to lend-lease to the United States nothing less than the Victorian Age in its entirety. 1962Listener 15 Feb. 307/3 The abrupt ending of Lend-Lease. 1972National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 3/1 Talks in the State Department are aimed at ending a U.S.-Soviet dispute over lend-lease that goes back to World War II. From 1942 to 1945, the United States supplied Russia with some $10.8 billion in military and civilian equipment under the lend-lease program. |