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Word: lende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dissenters made futile noises. Then the House of Commons voted a new Mutual Aid Bill, Canadian counterpart of U.S. Lend-Lease. In the coming fiscal year, the Dominion will spend $800,000,000 in Canada to provide material assistance to her Allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Mutual Bargain | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...Total Mutual Aid expenditures (up to March 31): $912,000.000. Considering Canada's smaller national income, the amount was proportionately one and a half times as much as the U.S. gave in Lend-Lease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Mutual Bargain | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...People's Anger. The revolution broke in Guayaquil. Against the Carabineros marched the Army, using U.S. Lend-Lease tanks. With the Army marched workers and students of the Democratic Front. Some 300 Guayaquil revolutionists and police were killed by shellfire; street fighting raged for eleven hours. In other cities -Riobamba, Cuenca, Otavalo-the Carabineros surrendered or joined the Democratic Front with little bloodshed. In Quito, the sleepy capital of church bells, barefoot Indians and grand vistas, high up (9,500 ft.) in the Andes, the people poured into the streets. There, too, the Army came to their side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Fall of a Dictator | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

Dictator Arroyo del Rio resigned, sought refuge in the Colombian Embassy. A provisional junta promptly invited Velasco Ibarra to take over. The exile promptly accepted, rode into Quito in a Lend-Lease jeep. With vivas and flowers, 50,000 Quitenos welcomed their new President. On a balcony overlooking Independence Square, Velasco Ibarra proclaimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Fall of a Dictator | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...Army now has 75,000 planes, of which 34,000 are combat craft. The Navy recently announced that it has 37,700 aircraft of all kinds, giving the armed services a total strength of 112,700 planes. Franklin Roosevelt added some figures of his own: since the beginning of Lend-Lease (March 11, 1941) the U.S. has built 175,000 planes, shipped 33,000 to its allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Impossible Job | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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