Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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JOHN F. ERHARD Scranton...
...wider, fatter bacon than most other Americans. They found that prim-mouthed Philadelphia was the nation's biggest market for dried prunes, and ate more ice cream per capita than any other city in the world. Richmond liked "triple succotash," a mixture of lima beans, corn and potatoes; Scranton, Pa. bought more butter per capita than any other city...
Cities in other parts of the country showed the same anxieties. Scranton, Pa., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Sioux City, Iowa, were all demanding their rights and the Census Bureau expected dozens of anguished cries from the bleachers in the next few weeks. Not all of this was injured civic pride. Most cities get state tax money on a population basis and their officials thought they saw the Government depriving them of good, hard cash...
...Slavic and German communities along the U.S. "polka circuit," nobody has to be told about Frankie Yankovic and his five-man polka band. In a year they play as many as 275 one-night stands in theaters, clubs and dance halls from Scranton, Pa. to Girard, Kans., and from Calumet, Mich, to the Ohio River. In big towns on the circuit, they have been known to outdraw such name bands as Guy Lombardo and Vaughn Monroe 2 to i. In small mining and farming communities a Yankovic appearance can bring out a crowd that is twice the size...
...violinists were all showing each other how to play-and no wonder, there were eleven ex-concertmasters in the string section. It was the same with the wise old woodwinds and the boastful brasses. After a frustrating hour, Conductor Weissmann felt like flying back to the peace of his Scranton (Pa.) Philharmonic. But when the Old Timers Orchestra of New York's American Federation of Musicians, Local 802, begged him to come for just one more rehearsal, he had to admit "I fell in love with them...