Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bars, taverns, roadhouses are about 600,000 coin phonographs, or jukeboxes (a word which their manufacturers hate). According to an estimate by Variety, the jukes take in $150,000,000 a year in nickels. Costing an average of $300 apiece, the jukes become obsolete, or outmoded, at the rate of 150,000 a year. This week one of the biggest makers, Mills Novelty Co. of Chicago, was ready to unveil-in Hollywood-a new kind of box which it calls the Panoram Soundies...
...distributor of phonograph music is the humble jukebox, which absorbs some 44% of the output of U. S. popular records, plays them at a nickel a throw in bars, dance dives and lunch counters throughout the U. S. In its simple form, the juke-box is complete with coin slots, colored lights and automatic record-changing mechanism for a stack of twelve to 24 discs. But during the past year, in a few western and midwestern U. S. cities, the juke-box has been menaced by science's onward march. The menace: a chain system of jukeboxes, all wired...
...eager, warmhearted Canadian Dr. William Osier flipped a coin, to decide whether he should leave McGill University in Montreal to teach clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. It fell "heads"; he left...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes did not "coin the word anesthesia." He suggested the word "anesthesia" and indicated in his letter the origin of this word and its definition...
...Gallup Polls-played a new nickel-in-the-slot game. It had several names (Keeney, Sky Fighter, Sky Pilot), but the fun of all was to aim an imitation machine gun, pull a trigger, try to shoot down a darting, fugitive image of an airplane. "No wonder players insert coin after coin-" exulted International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc., in a broadside extolling its Sky Fighter. "It's that 'trigger-finger' itch that everyone...