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CONTRACTS LET IN AMERICA STEADY INCREASE IN FLOW OF SUPPLIES (Received November 24, 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, November 23. .Mr Edward R. Stettinius (a member of the Priorities Board of the United States Office of Production Manage* ment) announced that contracts had been let for more than 75 per cent, of the lease-lend appropriation of seven billion dollars, and he indicated that one billion dollars’ worth of supplies had already been shipped to Britain and her allies. j He said that since the beginning of. the war total, exports to Britain amounted to 5,250,000,000 dollars, most of which were financed by the British with their own dollars. , Illustrating the 'steady increase
1 lease-lend aid, he said the amount for March was 18,000,000 dollars, for June ’ 85,000,000 dollars, and for September 207,000,000 dollars, and the amount tor . : October was the largest during the 1 war.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23495, 25 November 1941, Page 7
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