Word: fireworkmen
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...Twenty years ago, July 4 was ushered in with 18-in. cannoncrackers which sounded like quarry blasts. These, largest ever made. were constructed with a heavy cardboard case two-thirds filled with saltpetre, carbon and sulphur. In those days, long before and after July 4 fireworkmen were billed like vaudeville teams about the country, the wonders of pyrotechny were displayed to smalltown folk in parks and pastures. Greatest spectacle of these traveling companies was "The Last Days of Pompeii," a morality pageant on a 576-ft. canvas topped by a 70-ft. Vesuvius. Climax of the spectacle came when...
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