Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before nightfall Denver discovered that Jaedke had done Veteran Mitchell a good turn. The Colorado State Flower Growers' Association contributed $800 to help Mitchell build his apartments. A friend added $325. By week's end citizens had sent $1,100 more to the Rocky Mountain News to be forwarded to him, and the fund was still growing...
...Gibson often whizzed down Cranmore Mountain on a wooden sled. But it wasn't until long after he'd made Who's Who, from a standing start as floor sweeper for an express company, that a chance remark by a relative aroused his interest in skiing. Cranmore Mountain had the snow in winter and the slopes. So he bought...
Gibson installed a $125,000 "Skimobile" invented by an employe. In the Skimobile's 180 miniature red & blue cable cars, skiers ride up the 2,052-foot mountain. Then Gibson developed 50 miles of downhill trails, hired famed skimeister Hannes Schneider (after he got him out of a Nazi concentration camp), built four new cottages and a "Swiss chalet" annex, converted an old inn into the Eastern Slope hotel. He lost $50,000 on the hotel for three years, until he hired Hotelman Lester Sprague to pull...
...base-station, new this season), has taken out his dividends in fun. A so-so skier (he hurt his knee cap seven years ago), he nevertheless likes to wrap himself in a huge sheepskin coat, clap on a cocky green Alpine hat, ride up the mountain and ski down (see cut). Nights he joins the orchestra in the Currier & Ives Room at the inn, plays one of his four mandolins and seven violins, including a glass one. Between numbers, he regales his guests with tales of how he worked his way through Bowdoin College by fiddling in a burlesque house...
...fashion, they object to "all this foreign element" from New York. They don't relish losing their wintertime leisure, just to make more money than they had ever dreamed of. Grumbled one: "We're so busy we don't even have time to look at that mountain any more...