Word: sparkler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best peacetime fireworks year had been 1929. Then the entire industry employed 1,8 1 1 workers, did a $6,500,000 business. In the following years, state after state restricted fireworks. The industry wilted like a burned-out sparkler; total whole sale sales dropped by half. The war sent fireworks manufacture spinning upwards...
Vital Statistics: Yearbook's Al Connors and Co. plan an Alteration May 27. It seems that an Army-Navy coalition was arranged this weekend when Carlos Cole's Army nurse returned to Chicago with a sparkler. Your Battalion Commander, Brinker, he with audible voice, is New York-bound this weekend. An added inducement to the purchase of the "Rough Roll" is the fact that 134 Waves will be represented pictorially. You may also expect your copy of the Yearbook in about one month...