Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Made famous on machines produced by the Chicago Coin Co., the Windy City scheme has the player furtively place the two front legs of the device on his toes, reducing the angle of incline on the playing board, and enabling the uncoordinated to reap the fruits of timely flicks...
More sinister is the Toledo jam. After each nickel the player inserts, he jams the coin plunger in as hard as possible. Eventually the spring returning the plunger in as hard as possible. Eventually the spring returning the plunger weakens, fails to work, and the swindler enjoys some ill-gotten games...
...Take chances and play it safe, get on the right side of people and knock their heads in if they get in your way, and above all get the breaks," is Clark's formula for the quickest method of raising coin enough to buy mink spats and diamond stickpins...
...year in record royalties-but the Taft-Hartley Act outlaws royalties paid to a union. Petrillo is leaving it up to the record companies to find some other way of paying his union off. He has another target too: the disc jockeys who coin fortunes by playing records all day long without paying royalties to either performers or the union. Some record executives like to think that Petrillo is really after the broadcasters, and that the recording ban is only a bluff...
...inventions," which fall somewhere between Rube Goldbergian complexity and a shaggy dog story. (Example: a slot machine "which blows off steam, lights up, whistles, makes five minutes of loud silence when you put a dime in it, eventually returns your coin-it's for giving yourself a tip in a self-service restaurant...