Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dime-a-Dose. In Madison, Tenn., Spray-a-Tan, Inc. started production of a coin-operated machine, invented by William H. Hayes and William B. Jakes Jr., designed to take the sand and rubbing out of suntan oiling. For a dime, a sunbather can step up to an aluminum cabinet (see cut) and spray himself with oil for 60 seconds. The price: $200 a machine and $7 a gallon...
...object of penny-pitching is, like in most competitive contests, to win. This is done by prepelling a penny through the air and/or along the pavement in such a manner that the coin comes to rest closer to a wall (at which the competitors are presumably aiming) than the coppers thrown by the other contestants...
...National Committee for Education on Alcoholism announced plans to place fund-raising coin boxes in Manhattan saloons. Campaign slogan: "You Can Drink. Help the Sick Alcoholic Who Can't-Al-coholism Is a Disease...
Watson said that no profit will be allowed from the Bendixes, which will be coin-operated. All revenue from the machines must go to the House Committee, rather than to a private company, and the committee must use all the money for expenses and maintenance. It will also have to pay the University for electricity and water...
...their won machines, but Vice-President Reynolds poured cold water on the idea. The Adams House Committee persevered, arguing that local laundries would be no more injured by such House competition than they were by the flourishing Radcliffe washers, and that there was a precedent for non-profit coin-machines in the ruling which permitted the House to run coke dispensers...