Is 5,000 francs per year ($200) a fair rental for the two and one half acres of prime Paris real estate upon which stands & straddles the Eiffel Tower?
Until recently no higher rental could be exacted, because of the meagre earnings of the syndicate which maintains La Tour Eiffel and its elevators and restaurant. This winter, however, the tower has blazed three nights a week with blatant, flaming advertisements of the trig, small motor cars built by M. Andre Citroen, famed "Henry Ford of France."
Last week the Municipal Council of Paris, shrewdly...
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