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...Enter Antoneili. Today about 30,000 workers turn out $150,000,000 worth of munitions and pyrotechnic devices yearly. The biggest fireworks manufacturer, Un excelled Manufacturing Co., reported a gross profit of $900,000 (net $188,000) for last year, compared to a 1939 deficit of $44,000. But normally much pyro technic-making is done by small shoe string operators, and they are getting their cut of war work...
Typical small operator was big, heavy-set Amerigo Antoneili (see cut), born 53 years ago in Farafeliorumpetris, Italy, where his father, Rigoletto, is still Royal Pyrotechnician to the King of Italy. Coming to the U.S. in 1912, Antoneili began to make fireworks in Rochester, eventually employed 30 persons in the peak season, nine the year around (all were Italians trained in Italy where fireworks is an ancient, secretive father-to-son business). He grossed between $25,000 and $40,000 annually. Antonelli's crews traveled around New York fairs, where powder was often mixed on the spot, and pyrotechnicians...
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