Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hundreds of minor earth shocks and a score of major quakes occurred, last week, in a narrow area some 500 miles long and stretching from Varna, on the Black Sea across Bulgaria, Thrace and the islands of the Aegean Sea to Corinth, in Greece. As the first shocks rumbled at Corinth, a telegraph operator frantically clicked off the words: "Help! Help! All is lost!" Over, and over he repeated the frenzied message. Then the earth reeled, the telegraph office collapsed, crushing the operator, and, with a universal cataclysmic roar, virtually every building in Corinth tumbled to the ground...
...Bulgaria is a hath not nation. No other suffered such cruel losses of territory after defeat in the World War. Her currency is still debased, her people impoverished. She is disarmed, and yet her public peace is menaced by the organized brigands of Macedonia. Therefore when 30 earthquake shocks smote Bulgaria, last week, the phenomena seemed like the act of a malignant and relentless...
After a painstaking inspection of the city, Prime Minister Andrea Liaptcheff of Bulgaria officially reported that not one single building remained habitable. The famed Simplon-Orient Express, connecting Paris and Constantinople, could not traverse Bulgaria last week. Towns shaken down included Borisovgrad, Russof, Kavala, Komatine, Negotim and Gajecar...
During the week Little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria, and his sister Princess Eudoxia, and his brother Prince Cyril visited the devastated region and spoke words...
...richest nation when its total wealth is divided by its 118,000,000 inhabitants, according to new calculations of Redmond & Co., Manhattan investment house. Per capita wealth of New Zealand is $3,317.70; of Switzerland, $2,998.20; of the U. S., $2,941.90; of Rumania, $2,808.90. Poorest are Bulgaria, $403.10; Greece, $395.80; Soviet Russia...