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...Pig Iron-70 million tons...
...Wolverhampton, while Lady Macmillan unpacked the bags at the hotel, he popped up at a local Butchers' Association ball, announced that he could not "resist a good band." Next day, his pants rolled up, he tramped through the Kidderminster cattle market, chuckled loudly when a runaway pig scampered between his legs (being photographed with pigs was a specialty of a previous Tory Prime Minister. Stanley Baldwin). Later Macmillan dropped in at the Half Moon for a spot of ale. Near Shrewsbury he donned a pair of hastily bought gum boots for a plowing and hedging contest, sloshed over...
...hisses steam for ten minutes and then continues along the shore of the Lehigh River. One of many steelworkers on the night shift of the Bethlehem Steel Company, a huge plant which stretches out of the city for almost five miles, lifts his goggles and sits on an iron pig to eat a supper of cold pork and white bread. For him, and thousands of others, the presence of gigantic Bethlehem Steel in a relatively small city is virtually unignorable...
...with It"? Still, the marks came, saw, smelled, paid through the nose and did not complain. But on the rest of the lot, business was lousy. End-of-season weather was spoiling it, even for the pig iron (Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, whip, etc.), the moneymaking rides that most carnies consider the backbone of their show. The crowd-pulling mittcamps (palm-reading and pocket-picking gypsies) were gone. The gypsies had pinched some hogs from farmers in the last town, and the Gratz fuzz (cops) had sent them packing. Billed simply as "Stella," for its leading stripper, the girlie...
Today, when the fuzz is cracking down and the rubes are wising up, some 2,300 country fairs still draw nearly 85 million people, support about 350 traveling carnivals. The big shows employ up to 500 people, pay top wages ($125 a week for pig-iron operators, as much as $2,000 for big-name acts), keep their owners in the top tax brackets. The little 40-milers (trailer shows making short jumps between towns) sometimes let a Colonel Alter save something more than a Philadelphia bankroll, sometimes are hard put to buy groceries. But big shows or 40-milers...