Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the city's Polish refugees, fresh from Warsaw, wondered if Nazi bombers had not paid it a visit. The Calea Victoriei is half boarded up as the street's smaller twists are being straightened out. A wide boulevard is being cut through the old Jewish bazaar quarter. The River Dambovitsa, long an open sewer dividing the city, is being covered over by a broad thoroughfare...
...Buckingham. To complete the work in record time, night shifts work under floodlights. Throughout the city, as new buildings go up, old ones have come down, but around the Palace whole blocks have been demolished to make a new Royal Square between the Calea Victoriei and Boulevard Bratianu, a quarter of a mile away. Centerpiece of this new square will be the equestrian statue of Rumania's first Hohenzollern King, Carol I. Meanwhile, Carol II is staying at Cotroceni Palace, his late mother's favorite home, on the outskirts of town...
...year-old George Bassett Roberts, tall, owlish professorial son of the bank's economist-emeritus, 82-yeaR-old George Evan Roberts. In the same Letter last week Economist Roberts also published the nine-month earnings figures of his selected 320 corporations-a far better gauge than last quarter reports of how much real prosperity, ex-war-boom, U. S. business has achieved. By industrial groups these nine month earnings showed...
...Nowhere into the here came Big Steel (which Economist Roberts rates as an industrial group by itself) converting a $12,000,000 deficit to a $12,000,000 profit. Steel's third quarter report last week showed its Cinderella common stock back in the black to the tune of $10,420,445-47? a common share, and showed $5.16 operating profit per ton shipped; it is operating at close to 90%. Even more spectacular was the record of Bethlehem Steel, which makes money at a lower rate of operations than its big brother, which is now operating at full...
...Tine, stocky halfback, who reeled off a series of long gains, the Crimson squad scored again in the second quarter when veteran Sherm Hoar went over from the one yard line. Ted Lyman's kick was blocked...