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Who said that the lend-lease act was like lending a garden hose to a next door neighbor whose house is on fire?
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When was the first bombing in world war 1?
To fall from a Zeppelin on London dropped in the garden of The Nevill Arms Public House. 30 May 1915 (31 Nevill Road)
Under the terms of the Lend Lease Act passed March 1941 the US government allowed the President?
The Lend-Lease Act allowed the President to order military equipment and supplies transferred to other nations (Great Britain, the Soviet Union, later China and France, and others) without the necessity of it being paid for. The British were bankrupt. They had been buying material on a cash and carry basis to that point, but their Treasury was empty. This was controversial on several counts. Congress had passed a Neutrality Act, designed to keep the US strictly uninvolved, so "selling" military equipment and supplies to a belligerent nation was probably a violation of this Federal Law. Selling to only one side in a war is hardly "neutral". Also the US military was desperately trying to rearm and re-equip, in anticipation of eventual US involvement in the war. There was not enough military equipment being produced to do both, so the British got the equipment and US soldiers were training with broomsticks for rifles, bags of flour for grenades and trucks with big signs on their sides that said "tank" to simulate armor.Roosevelt gave one of his "fireside chats" over the radio to sell the program to the American people. He used the famous "garden hose" analogy, posing a hypothetical situation where your neighbor's house was on fire, and he needed your garden hose to put out the fire. Would you insist on bargaining on the price he must pay, and then require immediate payment before letting your neighbor have the hose??? NO!!! You'd let him take the hose and return it when the fire was out. This was a disingenuous argument on several counts. First, the neighbor's house would either burn to the ground in an hour or two or the fire would be put out in about the same time. "Lending" this war equipment looked to be, and in fact was, a matter of years. The neighbor lived next door, while Britain was thousands of miles away across an ocean. And the hose would be returned little the worse for wear, but anything returned from Lend-Lease (and I don't think anything actually was), if it was not destroyed in the war first, would be worn out and obsolete.
What are CB's?
In military parlance Construction Battalions (CeeBees) CB is also Citizens Band radio. Used widely by truckers and people in remote areas. A base station in house or mobile in vehicle, allows you to talk or listen to anyone else on the frequency you are using. Could be your neighbor or, if the conditions are right, even someone in another country.
What are the tasks of Cinderella around the house?
She had to clean the house and do chores
What was haddo house used for in world war 2?
marnternty house
Who said Lending a garden hose to a next door neighbor whose house is on fire?
President Roosevelt
What statement was said by Roosevelt when he rallied Americans to help Britain and the USSR against the Axis?
If you mean the statement explaining "Lend-Lease", he compared it to lending your neighbor your garden hose when his house is on fire.
Can neighbor paint my house that faces their garden?
of course not
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I noticed that my neighbor's house was being painted a bright shade of yellow.
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Try to make a path of squirrel feed to your neighbor's to your house. But it dose matter how far you are from the house.
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its a house with a garden
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I'm not her neighbor but her neighbors said that, if you're her neighbor you can have a coffee with her and she can go to your house
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In your neighbor's house.
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The rose garden is on the grounds of the White House.
When did Garden House riot happen?
Garden House riot happened in 1970.
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the garden in front of a house is called a yard
How do you answer a stranger who asks Is that your house?
Don't answer personal questions. Look around for any adult neighbor who is outside and instead of going to your house, go to the neighbor-- but don't go inside their house either. Instead, tell the neighbor a stranger is bothering you. Ask the neighbor to call the police and call your parents.
