Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good driver, as he speeds past, can hit as many as a dozen fist-flourishing bystanders with the spray from his wheels. Years of diving through elbowing passengers to collect the 10? fares has given many a conductor the temperament of a yegg; most ram their nickel-plated, jingling coin-collectors at the entering passenger's belly like a gunman wielding...
...guests was Marie Dubas, a top Parisian torchsinger whose hair, like that of many Frenchwomen, has turned red as she has approached middle age. She took off with a harrowing recitation of Kipling's My Son, then did three songs. The best: Mon Coco, Mon Coquin du Coin du Quai (My Sweetie, My Little Rascal from the Corner of the Wharf...
...which have forced operators to either 1) continue selling for a nickel and absorb the rise themselves or 2) charge a dime and pack 4? change in with each bar. But the industry hopes to lick this problem with a machine that will make change for any coin...
...this booming business is shared by nearly 200 manufacturers. Among the biggest are Rowe (cigarets), Du Grenier (cigarets and candy), Mills (unrelated to Bert E.) Novelty (Coca-Cola and familiar "one-arm-bandit gambling machines") and Automatic Canteen (snacks). The industry has lately attracted such companies as Bell Aircraft (coin changer) and General Electric (hotdog cooker...
Like the rest of the industry, National Slug is also looking ahead. In the works are: 1) a machine that will sell fresh meat and fish at odd prices (e.g., a pound of fish for 38?); 2) a soft-drink dispenser that will take as large a coin as a quarter, return 20? in change. In ten years, the happy gadgeteers expect the automatic vending industry to be one of the nation's top retailers, gross about $3 billion...