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...base at Dalhart, Tex. last week bungled his navigation by 45 miles: he mistook the lights of Boise City, Okla. (pop: 1,144) for his practice target. Aiming straight at the Baptist church and Forrest Bourk's garage, he loosed six practice bombs (each bomb: 4 lb. of powder, 96 lb. of sand and shell). The noise of the explosions roared through the sleeping town...
...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 never sure whether they would get a spectacular effect or lose their eyebrows. Five days after Pearl Harbor, Antonelli landed a $1,005,000 contract to assemble incendiary bombs. Subsequently he got $2,000,000 more...
Exit Antonelli. Generally, the fireworks industry did a noble production job. But not Antonelli. Fortnight ago military police marched into his powder shacks, jailed Antonelli and six superintendents for "deliberate and malicious" faulty manufacture of grenades and incendiary bombs for the U.S. At the grand jury hearing last week, workers testified that they had been instructed to skimp on powder except when the "Boy Scouts" (Government inspectors) were looking, that Antonelli had said: "The bombs are no damn good anyway. Just get out the production...
...women workers back to their homes after the Armistice. (In the last 25 years, he has probably spent $2,500,000 on public service. Once in the '30s, alarmed by U.S. unpreparedness, he offered the Army $3,300,000 to buy machinery to make smokeless powder...
...Pont's process, now used in all hexamine plants, combines liquid formaldehyde and liquid ammonia to form hexamine by a secret method. The solution is then passed into an evaporator, where it is boiled down into crystalline form. This substance is dried, ground and shipped in powder form to explosives plants. Said a Du Pont worker: "We never see the finished product. But Hitler does-plenty...