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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Super-Capitol | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

Fire, of undetermined origin, completely destroyed the Soldiers Field Locker Building early this morning. The three-alarm blaze, which commenced a few minutes before midnight, gained such a start that the three dozen odd pieces of apparatus and their complement of fire fighters were absolutely helpless to extinguish the flames. A crowd of upwards of 4,500, made up largely of students, watched hungry flames turn into belching smoke and a tangled mass of debris all of the medical equipment of the Athletic Association, trophies of generations of Harvard victories, over 300 complete football outfits, 100-odd baseball uniforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flame-Swept Athletic Center Will Be Replaced By Modern Plant From Recent Dillon Gift | 1/15/1930 | See Source »

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