Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grumpy citizens, weary of waiters, cabbies and similarly unappealing personnel who do a fast, sloppy job, then present open, demanding palms, Mendelsohn's in New Rochelle, N.Y., offers a solution. It is a coin that looks like a quarter, feels like a quarter (at eight for $ 1, even costs less than a quarter), generally passes for the genuine article until the tipper is safely out of reach. Too late, open, demanding eyes will discover the drawing of an outstretched hand where George Washington should be, and instead of an eagle, the straightforward, gloriously embossed message: THIS COIN is YOUR...
...result, 58% of Rank's current profit comes from nonfilm activities. Capitalizing on Britain's rising incomes, Rank's 19 divisions run 18 "Top Rank" bowling alleys, 38 bingo clubs, 29 ballrooms, 15 coin-op laundries, 25 dance studios. The firm has also opened three motor inns and ten highway service centers, runs 184 TV and appliance retail stores and six factories that make radio and TV sets, appliances and electronic equipment...
...Germain and St.-Honore. Their wares are mostly remarkable for their prices. On sale there last week was a velvet dog under glass for $100, a screen commemorating the 1900 Floradora Sextet for $80, a portrait of Lord Kimberley on glass for $160 and a small silver-plated coin case...
Final Polish. Despite overcrowding and high mortality in the industry, several hundred entrepreneurs have already opened coin-op car washes across the U.S. During the next year, the industry expects another 1,000 coin-ops to open, in addition to 250 more of the traditional conveyer-line or "tunnel" outfits. Johnson's Wax is putting the final polish on a plan to establish a nationwide chain of 300 car washes that will do everything-including applying a coat of wax-automatically. Continental Oil Co. (Conoco) has begun to test coin-ops in its Denver gas stations, could eventually attach...
Setting Up Vibrations. The coin-ops are aimed at attracting young people, lower-income groups, and longtime driveway polishers who have become sufficiently prosperous that they no longer want their neighbors to see them doing the job-yet not so prosperous that they want to spend $2 to clean up the car. The do-it-yourself outfits are so far concentrated in the Southwest, often appear in small towns, where their cost (average: $20,000) makes them far more practical than the high-volume tunnel washers (average cost: $200,000). New and better coin-ops are bound to come: next...