Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without previous warning Bulgaria's fiscal "Big Three," the Bulgarska Banca. Banque Franco-Bulgar and Banque du Credit National suddenly merged into a "Big One Bank," called United Bulgarian Banks...
Still on closest, friendliest terms with Italy is Bulgaria, despite the fact that II Duce's plan of marrying Princess Giovanna to Tsar Boris of Bulgaria was blocked at the very last minute (when His Majesty was actually en route to Rome) by Pope Pius XI (TIME, April...
...Reykjavik there are no street cars, but many a Buick taxicab. Constantly soaring back and forth across the country ?a little smaller than Bulgaria or Kentucky?are two sturdy planes of the German Lufthansa. Two summers ago a German tourist brought several bags of vegetable seed, with the result that many nourishing plants, hitherto unknown in Iceland, sprouted and flourished last summer. But the Icelanders were not particularly pleased. They obey by instinct Explorer Stefansson's rule: A people react with pleasure to a new food in proportion as they have been accustomed to a varied diet. Accustomed...
Engagement Rumored. Tsar Boris Clement Robert Marie Pius Louis Stanislas Xavier of Bulgaria; and Princess Kyra Cyrilovna, daughter of Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich, pretender to the throne of the late Tsar Nicholas II; at Paris...
...Bott's journalistic policies and his Wartime activities. After having served in the Artillery and Royal Flying Corps in France and Mesopotamia, he entered the British espionage system. Captured by the Turks in 1918, he dramatically escaped across the Black Sea into Russia, whence he made his way through Bulgaria to Salonika. For his Turk-spying he was given the Military Cross with bar. Gleaning two bits of information where but one guarded bit grew before is for him a predilection and a hobby...