Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Potential investors poured into the convention of the National Institute of Dry-cleaning two years ago, clamoring to find out about a new "wonder business" that was virtually guaranteed to coin profits while they went fishing. Last week in Washington, the institute met again, and this time it was hard to hear a good word said for the business of coin-operated dry cleaning shops. In the two years between the two gatherings, the coin-op industry blossomed into a $120 million-a-year business with 7,300 shops across the U.S. But coin-ops have made more owners miserable...
...Amateurs. Coin-operated dry-cleaning machines look and operate much like coin-operated laundry machines...
...rubbing is made on the principle that schoolboys have been using for generations when they put paper over a coin and run a pencil over the surface to make a copy. Parker and Neal use large sheets of strong, pliable Japanese rice paper placed over the carving. A silk pad, dipped in black ink, is rubbed over the paper, and colored inks-coppery green or earthy brown-are added with other pads until the final effect is achieved. "Sometimes it takes hours-a whole day for a big one," says Neal. "We are often surprised to see how a rubbing...
Forbidden by a 131-year-old law known as the Truck Act from paying its workers in anything but "current coin of the realm," British industry every Friday has been forking over 15 million little brown packets of pounds, shillings and pence to 60% of the labor force. Friday evening, Mum gets her share. Friday night, pubs, cinemas and dog tracks get .theirs. Saturday morning, tradesmen get theirs. Unfortunately, stickup men usually take theirs early on Friday, and robbers in London alone last year made off with $700,000 worth of lolly. Alarmed by the rising robbery rate throughout Britain...
Thus described, Pynchon's book sounds like a Jack Kerouac eruption. It is not. The prose is quiet, sane and assured, even when it is describing something like the invention (by someone Benny meets at a party) of a coin-operated whorehouse for bus and railway stations...