Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expanded with U.S. technical assistance, numbers little more than 100,000 men, with an estimated 300,000 in reserve-just about large enough to squash possible fifth columns. Armed with World War I French artillery, the army ordered more from Germany in 1938, received cannon but little ammunition. Under Lend-Lease it has received additional arms from the U.S., but is still pitifully equipped to resist Blitzkrieg...
...Unlike Hirohito, the legitimate heir to the golden throne of the Incas has offered to remain neutral in World War II. But one day last spring the Emperor's neutrality became strained. In fact, Huaraca XXVI got hopping mad. For continental defense purposes Ecuador had offered to lend the U.S. use of a plot of "sacred land" donated to the Emperor by the Santa Elena City Council-the very spot where the "Only Inca" had intended to build a summer palace...
Unless the section of the Red Army backing slowly into the Caucasus could use the mountains as anchors to stem the Nazi tide, Russia would lose 60% of her oil and all Lend-Lease aid that now comes from south of the Caucasus...
Amounting to more trucks than the whole U.S. makes in a normal year, the new order got boos and catcalls when first announced. But when the details leaked out the order made sense aplenty. The contracts run for two and a half years, include all Lend-Lease needs and all the trucks the Army expects to use in a "reasonable war period." Now manufacturers can lay out longterm, sense-making production schedules, standardize operations and parts, avoid the waste and confusion of numerous small, haphazard orders...
...Brazilian navy is both small and antiquated, although an expansion program is now under way. In the naval sphere Brazil's most important immediate contribution will be bases from which aircraft and ships of the United Nations can operate without going through the delay of Lease-Lend formalities. Seaplane bases can be established all along the coastline, and small naval patrol craft may be stationed at many points...