Arsenal, Pantry & Shop

In preparing his second Lend-Lease report last week covering the second three months since enactment of the law, President Roosevelt could draw a vastly more gratifying picture than he painted three months ago.

Among Lend-Lease facts which the President could report:

>Of $7,000,000,000 appropriated, more than $6,250,000,000 has been allocated; more than $3,500,000,000 has been contracted for.

> Nearly $1,000,000,000 of planes have been contracted for and work started.

>"Aid rendered" has already totaled than $300,000,000 and articles have been actually transferred under lease to a total of $246,000,000.

> More than 320 merchant ships and 30 naval vessels have been repaired, outfitted with guns, degaussing equipment in U.S. yards. Undergoing repairs in the U.S. this week were at least 45 additional ships of war.

>More than 6,000 airplanes, 20,000 engines have been sent to the British empire since the war began.

> Food transferred to England included, among other items, 90,000,000 Ib. of pork, 110,000,000 Ib. of dried beans and lard, 50,000,000 lb. of eggs.

>Under her own purchases and Lend-Lease combined, Britain had received from the U.S., since the start of war, more $4,400,000,000 of materials, equip etc.

>Not alone was Britain the beneficiary under the law. Lend-Lease aid had been extended to China, the Dutch, Norway, Greece, Czecho-Slovakia, as well as some countries in the Western Hemisphere.

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