Word: kantara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London weekly Tribune reported that at Kantara, a wartime troop transit base on the Suez Canal, the station platform was lined with ten lavatories, marked respectively...
...that juncture Snedaker's troubles multiplied. The anti-cholera regulations had ruined standard bus, train and plane schedules; service from Egypt to many countries was discontinued. To ship TIME to Beirut, for example, copies had to be moved from Cairo by truck over the desert to Kantara on the Suez Canal, ferried across the Canal and dispatched by train over the Sinai desert to Haifa, passed through troubled Palestine in a private car, over the mountains of Lebanon and along the Mediterranean coast road into Beirut, from which they could be airborne to Middle East subscribers and readers...
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