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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then destroyers and transports slid into Blanche Channel (between Rendova and New Georgia). Just before a stormy dawn, the transports hove to off Rendova. Landing barges snaked their way swiftly through a reef-jagged channel and ashore. Above loomed the jungle-robed, broken crater of Rendova Peak...
...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 were...
...Army will reach 8,200,000 in December, probably grow no larger unless war plans change radically. Peak payrolls for fiscal 1944 will be 8,233,083-including 375,000 WAACs...
...snapped to his interpreter: "Ask him how he happened to become a sportswriter." Another asked: "What are your duties as a fireman?" Replied tart Gunder Hagg: "I put out fires." He calmly announced that he expected to break no records while in the U.S. because he was past his peak (at 24)-"and that's the time to become a sportswriter, when you're past your peak...
...Before 1950," said an OWI report on air transport this week, "the United States may well have half a million private, commercial and military planes in active service." The report added that "this may seem like a lot" (it is 1,152 times the peak number of planes that all U.S. air lines operated at home and abroad before the war). Other OWI statistics on air transport...