Word: backroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry's Arcade Spa, whose floors have felt the tread of Roosevelts and Rockefellers, pinball was termed "good clean fun," "necessary for morale," "harmless amusement."' "If the game is banned," said one habitue, "you will get a vicious ring of backroom machines and gambling. The ban will probably boomerang." Regardless of the outcome of the ban, Arcade Spa, which thrives on pinball revenue, will be hard...
...girls, gambling and guzzling until last summer, when Army authorities from nearby Fort Francis E. Warren cracked down. Sin spots went under cover, which meant they had to begin buying protection. Soldiers (mostly Negroes) from Fort Warren still had a million-a-month payroll to blow. In sleazy backroom dives, blackjack stakes ran as high as $200 a game. Nightspots bootlegged whiskey because they could not get liquor franchises, limited in Cheyenne to 20 a year and unofficially valued at $50,000 each. Negro service wives were forced to prostitute themselves or be thrown out of their rooms...
...late Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, the Sheppard Bill was almost entirely written by dynamic, bright-eyed, 70-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, now serving her ninth term as W.C.T.U. president. A onetime resident of Iowa, where she scared the State Legislature silly, she is a great backroom politician, rates high with reporters, to whom she furnishes plenty of sprightly copy...
...nattily uniformed girls. Unlike many merchants, Jim welcomed Brazil's recent 240 milreis ($12.36) monthly minimum wage laws because he knows Brazil-and especially Lojas-needs larger public purchasing power. Originally, 90% of his wares came from the U. S. or Europe. But Lojas financed many a backroom Brazilian factory; now 75% of its goods are homegrown, and many a Lojas-squired factory now sells all over Brazil. Some of them have even begun to cast eyes on the world trinket markets once dominated by Czecho-Slovakia and other European countries...