RUMANIA: Super-Capitol

A $100,000,000 contract, pledging the credit of every man, woman and child in Rumania to the extent of approximately $5, was signed with a U. S.-German group of builders and architects last week by Vice President Clinciu of the Rumanian Senate.

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."

To finance this gargantuan program a Special Funding Bank was created last week in Bucharest, with...

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