Word: antonellis
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...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...
...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...
...first minute of the five-minute overtime session. Hyde put Harvard ahead by two points, but Tufts Rocco Antonelli tied it up two minutes later. Then Hyde's foul with a minute to play looked good enough to win, and the Crimson waived two fouls to keep possession of the ball. But these tactics proved fruitless when Andy Gibbons sneaked away on a sleeper play and converted a pass from Antonelli to win the battle with twenty seconds remaining...
...yard free style-Won by Art Bosworth (H); second, Bus Curwen (H); third, Antonelli (Y). Time...