Word: cementation
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...protect her African keystone, France strongly fortified the hills around Bizerte harbor. But the Allied forces are approaching Bizerte, fortified for a sea attack, by a backdoor land route. To face Italian aggression from Libya, France built the Mareth ("Little Maginot") Line of pillboxes and sunken cement forts in the hills at the eastern border. In hostile hands these fortifications would not be an impossible obstacle to the Allies. The Germans and Italians dismantled many of the fortifications after the French armistice in 1940; and the guns on the Mareth Line are set to point east...
...make boilers and engines, shape every piece of steel used in a West-built ship. Things went well until after World War I, when shipbuilding collapsed. The thing that "saved the bacon," says Charlie, was the machine division, which promptly turned to heavy items like industrial cranes, dredges, cement and paper-mill machinery...
...British fired the shipyards, coal, iron, lumber and cement center of Kiel. Pathfinder planes overcame poor visibility by dropping hundreds of flares. The bombers followed with 4,000 tons of explosive-more hell than Kiel had caught in any of the previous 69 raids. Ten planes failed to return...
...Commander Jimmy Crowley's North Carolina Cloudbusters roar into town today and run through plays this afternoon in the Stadium at 4 o'clock. In preparation for the second appearance of the cadets in the cement horseshoe, which will be tomorrow afternoon, the Crimson forces of Dick Harlow have been through double sessions this past week...
...been outlawed And Phillips Brooks House has not let the war interrupt its Harvard-Radcliffe teas. Football games and post-game dances have not been cancelled. The Houses, into which Freshmen are moved for the first time this year, have arranged for men of '46 to meet and to cement some sort of class solidarity...