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&lt;td style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: left;" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;" class="_mt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: black 2px solid; text-align: right;" valign="bottom" width="9%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;" class="_mt"&gt;71,740&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2px;" valign="bottom" width="1%" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;" class="_mt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;td style="padding-bottom: 4px;" valign="bottom" width="76%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;" class="_mt"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border-bottom: black 3px double; text-align: left;" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;" class="_mt"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border-bottom: black 3px double; text-align: right;" valign="bottom" width="9%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;" class="_mt"&gt;302,691&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align: left; padding-bottom: 4px;" valign="bottom" width="1%" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;" class="_mt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border-bottom: black 3px double; text-align: left;" valign="bottom" width="1%"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10pt;" class="_mt"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt; display: block; margin-left: 54pt; margin-right: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font style="display: inline; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;" class="_mt"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;

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Note 14 -


CUSTOMER ADVANCES IN EXCESS OF COSTS INCURRED ON CONTRACTS IN PROGRESS

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