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Show Camels and Locomotives One of the biggest concrete bridges In the world is along the new railway lines being built through Turkey. Although Al-though only a little over 500 miles long, the two lines penetrate difficult country, necessitating the building of about 2,000 bridges, large and small, and many tunnels. In Angora an average of 8,000 blasts of dynamite a day are used to dislodge the rocky wastes. More than 1S,000 peasants and shepherds are employed on the work besides thousands of peasant women who labor as stone breakers. An oriental touch is given to the picture pic-ture by thousands of camels used to transport supplies as the building progresses. ! i |