Word: equipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the Wise Men are asking only about $800 million more from all the European allies-not enough to equip and . maintain one division, with air support, through 1952-54. And the U.S. is really paying about 90% of the entire bill. Nevertheless, the air was thick with outcries. Most indignant were the Belgians, who cried that their high standard of living and control over inflation stems from sound monetary policy, for which the Wise Men now propose to penalize them. The Italians said they just couldn't afford more arms, because the Po floods had inundated them with...
Last week, after a five-hour cabinet meeting, Pleven had good news to announce: the U.S. had granted France $600 million emergency aid-$200 million for direct economic aid, $400 million to maintain U.S. troops stationed in France and to equip U.S. armed forces from French industry...
...have no disagreement with the reasoning behind this rule. The University does not equip and financially support athletic teams to provide sponsors with money making spectacles, no matter how worthy those sponsors...
...arms makers were less punctual in their deliveries to Canada. The Canadian army announced last week that despite the long-range program to standardize Canadian and U.S. arms, it will equip its 27th Brigade armored squadron in Germany with British-made Centurion tanks. Reason: the U.S. cannot promise delivery on a Canadian order placed last spring for 60 of the U.S. Army's M-47 medium tanks. The British agreed to supply 60 Centurions, standard medium tank of the Royal Armored Corps, in the near future...
...where six apiece were planned. There should have been 2,500 U.S. tanks on hand, but there were only 500. So busy were SHAPE'S planners at the complicated task of meshing distant needs in materials, factory construction, production and manpower that too little was being done to equip what forces were now on hand...