Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazil lacks arms, transport vehicles, food and above all shipping for an expeditionary force...
Elephants hate war. The Burmese elephant is an especially sensitive beast who loathes mechanized transport of any kind. He refuses to go near trucks, and he trumpets, shies and runs away when he hears even a distant airplane motor...
Assam and Burma own terrain which will not tolerate motor transport. Result: elephants have returned to the assistance of the Indian Army after a lapse of 40 years...
...Fascist leaders still believe that woman's place is in the home, and few women have been placed in factories. But boys of twelve work afternoons in war industries, and soldiers are frequently used as laborers. Transport has been crippled by the labor shortage. In Rome trains and trams run only at the peak hours. Travel between cities is impossible without special police permission. Only one train a day runs between Naples and Rome; once there were 15. And trains do not run on time...
...transport, the Army has a more compact unit which can be carried in three small cases and is mercifully speedy in use: determinations usually take about 40 seconds...