Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense he was one himself, and a good one. He knew that the central problem of democracy is to reconcile the claims of the individual with the claims of society. He has become a figure half out of folklore, half out of schoolbooks, as worn and familiar as the coin that bears his likeness. A century ago he carried out the most dramatic act of liberation in man's memory. However cogently historians may insist that the Civil War was not "about" slavery, the world will always see in it one overriding issue: whether any man is fit to hold...
Anti-Castro Cuban raiders nowadays buy their 2O-mm. cannons through the mail from Finland, make their dog tags on bus station souvenir coin machines. The raiders have largely deserted the Florida coast, and operate mainly from the Bahamas, escaping detection in the maze of 700 islands. Now and then one of their boats makes a dash for Cuba to drop off guns and supplies, shoot up a shore, maybe even fire at a Russian ship...
...Most of the machines were sold not to established and experienced drycleaners, but to investors who swallowed the high-powered promises of "profits while you sleep." Hard-talking salesmen urged investors to take out 90% loans on equipment worth up to $100,000. Many cities were quickly swamped with coin-ops; Denver at one point had 1,800 machines vying for business that 500 could have handled...
...business for beginners. The plumbers, insurancemen, and merchants who set up shops found that almost every fabric posed a different cleaning problem and that customers expected them to take out spots and stains just like the more expensive professionals, whose drycleaning process takes 14 separate steps. Coin-op cleaning proved to be better suited for such bulky items as blankets and draperies than for men's suits and outerwear. Fulltime attendants (often required by local laws) sent up labor costs. Electric bills were high, and machines frequently proved unreliable. Clothes often came out smelling like sulphur. Many began...
Little Extras. When coin-ops first started, the talk was that they would soon put professional drycleaners out of business. Something quite different is happening. To attract customers, the successful coin-ops have had to expand their operations into spotting, pressing and other services, thus are becoming somewhat professional themselves. Many professionals, having lost some business to the coin-ops, have turned to selling coin-op-type service as a sideline, for cleaning materials from around the house and old clothes that do not need pressing. The general feeling at last week's convention was that there...