Word: antonellis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jumbos, who gave Coach Floyd Stahl's combination considerable grief last season before succumbing, Coach Fred "Fish" Ellis will start an experienced lineup. Forwards and co-captains Rocco Antonelli and Eddie Ham were regular on pre-war Tufts teams, and guards Bob Cooney and Earle Tryder are also Medford veterans. The probable starting center, Lee Kolankiewicz, is a talented Freshman...
...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 were never sure whether they would get a spectacular effect or lose their eyebrows. Five days after Pearl Harbor, Antonelli landed a $1,005,000 contract to assemble incendiary bombs. Subsequently he got $2,000,000 more...
...Exit Antonelli. Generally, the fireworks industry did a noble production job. But not Antonelli. Fortnight ago military police marched into his powder shacks, jailed Antonelli and six superintendents for "deliberate and malicious" faulty manufacture of grenades and incendiary bombs for the U.S. At the grand jury hearing last week, workers testified that they had been instructed to skimp on powder except when the "Boy Scouts" (Government inspectors) were looking, that Antonelli had said: "The bombs are no damn good anyway. Just get out the production...
Rest of the industry is too busy to pay much attention to the fizzled Antonelli. Some of the five big fireworks companies -Unexcelled; National Fireworks Co. of Boston; M. Backes and Sons of Wallingford, Conn.; Triumph Fusee and Fireworks Co. of Elkton, Md.; Essex Specialty Co. of Berkley Heights, NJ.-are operating shell-loading plants. Others are turning out: huge parachute flares for the Air Forces; signal lights, both flare and smoke for the Navy and Merchant Marine ; incendiary bombs for Chemical Warfare; huge cannon crackers for the infantry to toss over the heads of soldiers in maneuvers, condition them...
...base hits--Gleason, Clark. Stolen bases--Sorgi. Base on balls--off Berg 1. Struck out--by Berg 11. Sacrifice hits--Berg. Double plays--Sorgi to Gleason. Hit by pitched ball--by Berg (Antonelli...