Word: jugoslavs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel had been formed. When Union Steel announced plans for building a rail mill and a new railroad to Pittsburgh, U. S. Steel came around to bargain, bought Union Steel at a huge profit to Mellon and Frick. While all this was going on, one morning in 1901 a Jugoslav mining engineer punched a hole in a salt dome on the Texas plains and a huge fountain of oil such as man had never seen before spouted into the air. That well at Spindletop was to turn out more oil in the first three years than all the wells...
Back from a state visit to Rumania which Jugoslav editors called "momentous," His Majesty King Alexander began to play the role of Ruthless Dictator last week, dropping that of Constitutional Sovereign...
Sinaia. in the mountains north of Bucharest, is the snug retreat of Rumania's King Carol. Hostess there during the Jugoslav royal visit was Divorcé Carol's sister, ex-Queen Elisabeth of Greece. Italian newsorgans were furious. Rumania lately turned down a proposal by Benito Mussolini that she sign a treaty pledging assistance to Italy in case of a war with Jugoslavia. From Italy's standpoint the Rumanian Government, by consenting to a Jugoslavian state visit, was offering a rebuff to Italy, putting Il Duce's political nose out of joint...
...station platform King Carol & Hostess Elisabeth made a handsome couple. "Oh there's Auntie Marie!" shouted Crown Prince Mihai as the Jugoslav royal train chuffed in. Out bounced plump Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, embraced her brother Carol. Out stepped Jugoslavia's dentist-like King Alexander dressed as a Rumanian commander of artillery. Carol, dressed as a Jugoslav infantry officer, kissed Alexander while a Rumanian brass band blared the amazing three-ply national anthem of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes, officially called "Jugoslavia...
Since Jugoslavia is France's Man Friday in Balkan politics and since Jugoslavia adjoins Albania it was the Jugoslav Minister in London who rushed around to the British Foreign Office last week, filed excited warning that "the Jugoslavian Royal Government views with gravest concern the situation now arising in the Balkans due to Italian policy...