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Purpose: to provide Rumanian Government employes in Bucharest and elsewhere with 50,000 spandy new "model homes"; plus a liberal complement of highways', lighting systems, schools; plus a sugar plum for the Government itself in the shape of "the most magnificent Capitol Building in Europe...
...finance this gargantuan program a Special Funding Bank was created last week in Bucharest, with power to deduct payments on the instalment plan for "model homes" from the salaries of Government employes fortunate enough to get them-village postmasters, workers on the State Railways, policemen and the like...
...first carload of no million British-made bas-reliefs of eight-year-old King Mihai of Rumania was being circulated in Bucharest last week. The portraits (see cut) are being struck by the British Royal Mint, 5 million on Rumanian 20-lei (12?) pieces and 60 million on 5-lei (3?) coins, all of a base metal which the governments concerned refuse to describe more fully than as a "new alloy...
...Bucharest the news from Athens warmed the cockles of many a Rumanian heart. One of the sons-in-law of dynamic Dowager Queen Marie is insipid Georgios II, deposed King of the Hellenes. Doubtless he would resume his rule if by any remote chance Greece should go Royalist...
...until he receives the money for them from Bush Service, which will collect his customers' bills in Europe. An indication of the scope of the system: in Rumania there will be Bush Service offices in 14 cities, only one of which is even remotely familiar to American ears: Alba, Bucharest, Arad, Targu, Mures, Cernauti, Galatz, Braila, Constanza, Oradea, Timisora, Julia, Deva, Cluj...