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...Cairo and Alexandria. Port Tewfik, at the southern end, needs virtually to be rebuilt. Aside from a few peasants tilling the land, the only population on the Egyptian side is military, including as many as seven divisions of infantry. On the eastern bank, the Israelis are deeply entrenched in shellproof bunkers on the 95-mile Bar-Lev Line. Across the 200 yards of canal, the two sides keep constant watch on each other. The Israelis have built observation towers above the bunkers. The Egyptians occasionally drive a fire truck up to the canal, extend the ladder and clamber...
...Facts. Ponderous shellproof bunkers, with antiaircraft, anti-tank and machine guns, have been built near Berlin's Zoo station, in the Friedrichshain workers' district, in the Lichtenberg factory area. A yawning anti-tank trench has been dug and tank barriers set up along the rear of Berlin's chief Government buildings...
...against bad locomotive business. Of this, Mid-vale's $18,500,000 backlog adds up to the biggest single lump, 73%. Its presiding genius, handsome, abstemious Dr. Harry L. Frevert, lives from one ballistic test to the next, his only concern the race between armor-piercing shells and shellproof armor...
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