Word: vesuvius
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...Alps 5,000 ex-service men had already brought a tun of Piedmont's ruddy Barolos. Sicilians promised 1,000 bottles of tawny Moscato. Tuscany pledged 1,000 of Chianti. Umbria planned a gift of pale Orvieto Secco, most delicate of Italian wines. On the slopes of Vesuvius, Neapolitans prepared 1,000 of Lacrima Christi, Tear of Christ, for Peter's Cellar...
Russell Muth (Fox) turned the crank though volcanic gas dizzied him and the woman pilot who was steering his plane round the crater of Vesuvius. As the plane hit a tree near the rim of the crater, he saved his pictures by throwing the camera into some brushwood...
...Italian Government, rejecting the aid, even of the Red Cross, prepared to deal with reparations and relief unassisted. Estimators were busy. Damage cost was put roundly at $18,500,000. With fine exactitude the number of homeless was put at 3,952. Professor Alessandro Malladra of the Vesuvius Observatory estimated that Etna had belched 523,000,000 cubic yards of lava...
Meanwhile, by the Bay of Naples, the constant trickle of smoke which flutters over Vesuvius grew larger and darker. At night, there were lovely pink sparks which proved most titillating to U. S. tourists. Neapolitans, however, paid scant attention. No serious eruption was anticipated...
Though Mount Vesuvius is ever a-seething and a-smoking, timid tourists do not fear to ascend, when told that the funicular railway is owned and run by Thomas Cook...