Word: coined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students. Today an adviser is rewarded with "a certain number of meals in the Union". It is a case of the college attempting to get something for nothing, often from the most over-burdened sources. Until the college actively undertakes reform, it will be paid in its own coin...
Most cause for catcalls had old, famed Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., one of the world's largest music houses, best known exhibitor at the show. Two years ago, to recoup Depression losses on organs, pianos, violins, Wurlitzer broke into the coin machine market with nickel operated phonographs, Skee-ball games. Last year it is supposed to have grossed about $8,000,000 on these items alone. Last summer Rock-Ola, which had acquired patents on the coin phonograph from the old Deca-Disc Co., sued Wurlitzer for patent infringement. If this case goes against it, Wurlitzer may lose...
...Coin phonographs retail at $235, $340, and up, are very popular in the Deep South, are sold to lunch parlors, roadside diners and social clubs, often may be paid for in installments out of the proceeds. A third big phonograph maker is J. P. Seeburg Corp. of Chicago, whose tall, polished President Noel Marshall Seeburg was chairman of the coin men's convention last week for the third time...
Though Seeburg's main business is in phonographs, its main interest at present is in the still fertile realm of coin machines purveying other commodities than music. Recently Seeburg engineers have perfected ice cream and Coca-Cola vendors. Mr. Seeburg got interested in merchandise vending machines in England, where cigaret machines first came into general use, where as early as 1932, at the London Zoo, visitors ta the seals could operate for sixpence a herring hurling machine...
...coin game can be equipped with a device for disgorging coins, can be regulated by the house as to the percentage paid to players. Some state laws make a distinction between games of "skill" which reward high scores and the old out-and-out slot machine of the lemon & cherry variety. Still manufactured by five companies, including Mills, these can be legally operated only in Florida, Nevada, Maine and South Dakota...