SCRABBLE OUT OF GAME ON PRODUCTION IN U.S.Byline: Mary Ann Lickteig Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Today spells the end for the only U.S. factory making those little wooden Scrabble tiles. Hasbro Inc. is hanging a C-L-O-S-E-D sign at the Milton Bradley  This article or section is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article or section in an . Wood Products Co., which has churned out 1 million of the lettered tiles a day for 20 years. The reason is a 10-point word: business. Hasbro spokesman Mark Morris said the company began looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the most efficient way to make each product and decided to get out of the business of producing the tiles itself. Milton Bradley is a Hasbro division. Eighty-seven people are losing their jobs after doing their part to make the little rectangles that litter coffee tables in one of every three American homes. The game is a 50-year-old favorite guaranteed to turn up under Christmas trees and come out of closets during snowstorms. One million to 2 million copies of the game are sold in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. every year. ``Scrabble tiles are one of the most recognizable icons - American icons,'' said John D. Williams Jr., executive director of the National Scrabble Association The National Scrabble Association was created in 1978 by Selchow & Righter, then the makers of Scrabble, to promote their game. It coordinates local clubs and Scrabble tournaments in North America, including the United States Scrabble Open. The current director is John D. Williams. . |
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