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...over the wreckage of Europe. One, an Army transport, brought from Venezia Giulia the bodies of five U.S. flyers whose unarmed plane was shot down by Yugoslav fighters in America's first major postwar crisis. The crisis had passed, but the international tensions of which it was a peak continued. The five bodies, all crises past, lay flag-draped in the chapel of a Roman airport...
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Mount Wilson* was not always worth that much. In 1890 a syndicate of California hotelmen bought 1,500 acres of peak timberland for $4,500. But the small hotel they built burned down and the syndicate broke...
...James H. Holmes, whose daughter Childs had met and married in Hawaii. The observatory, for which the Carnegie Institution had leased 15 acres for $1 a year, was required by its lease to keep its grounds open to visitors. But the toll road and the hotel atop the peak had yet to make a profit. Said Childs: "This place ought to carry itself...
Wartime gas rationing almost shut down the business temporarily. But since the war, Mount Wilson has taken on new importance. Both television and FM depend on line-of-sight broadcasting, and Mount Wilson is the most accessible clear peak in Southern California. Childs has already sold 320 acres to broadcasting companies for $65,000, has also leased a choice plot to the Columbia Broadcasting System for $75 a month (CBS had to agree to give television demonstrations to tourists...