Word: circusman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost of moving from town to town has become prohibitive. On top of that, today's children, surfeited with TV tinsel, no longer quicken to the real-life roar of lions, the aerialist's heart-stopping plunge. "Suckers may still be born every minute," epitaphed a circusman in Manhattan last week, "but TV gets 'em first...
Chamber of Commerce president, reminded an Adrian Chamber of Commerce meeting that his company, now the second biggest U.S. independent copper and brass fabricator, had been founded on land given by Circusman P. T. Barnum in Connecticut. Said he: "We knew how to handle elephants." After the meeting, Steinkraus started organizing a plantwide White Elephant Club to get the employees to work cutting costs, stepping up production...