Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Musicraft, an outfit which hitherto specialized in high-brow discs, got into the chain-store trade by merest chance. Last summer Eli Oberstein's U. S. Record Corp. (TIME, Feb. 19) petitioned for reorganization. Its record-pressing plant, in Scranton, Pa., was owned by Scranton industrialists, who extricated it from the U. S. corporate setup. Musicraft saw its chance, contracted with the Scranton group to press the anonymous Masterpiece recordings...
Last week devout Brazilian toymakers thanked their patron saint and a U. S. businessman as they delivered 250,000 toys to Lojas Americanas, Brazil's best-known variety chain. It was the biggest order they had ever received from jolly, pink-faced Jim Marshall. Born in the Scranton coal belt, Jim Marshall is no Yankee fireball. Eschewing the impatient, hardheaded methods of most "dollar diplomats," he has for twelve years been just as friendly, almost as easygoing, as his customers. Result: he is the No. 1 storekeeper for Brazil's masses...
...Ulysses "Lupe" Lupien'39, recently recalled by the Boston Red Sox, had to make on the two summers he had spent in the minor leagues. A Harvard athletic great of recent vintage, he was snapped up by the Red Sox organization immediately upon graduation and farmed out to the Scranton club of the Eastern League...
...Scranton...
Despite the better brand of pitching "the Lupe" found the going fairly easy in the minors. At Scranton, a Red Sox farm in the Class A Eastern League, he ended up the season with a .319 batting average and fielded .989, making only eight errors...