Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fifty infantrymen with machine guns were despatched from Egypt by airplane. The British War Office ordered the tracks between Cairo and Alexandria cleared of traffic to facilitate troop movements...
...Alexandria," 1845, 5¢ bluish...
...London a Cabinet of Laborites who believe that, though Britain must continue to police Egypt's Suez Canal (route to India, "spinal column of the empire"),* still it should be possible to allow Egyptians substantial freedom in the Nile valley and autonomous rule in such great cities as Alexandria and Cairo...
...Nizhniy Novgorod (between Leningrad and Moscow) and that $30,000,000 of Ford products should be purchased within the next four years. Thus Ford-General Motors competition has been extended to Russia (and Asia) where the Ford Novgorod plant will compete with General Motors establishments at Warsaw, Stockholm and Alexandria, and even with General Motors of India in Bombay and General Motors of Japan in Osaka...
...Ford also took occasion to hint that he, like the Packard Company, was developing a new motor for aviation. He then proceeded to Alexandria, Va., to buy antiques...