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...horde of mechanics charged into New York's 520 subway and elevated stations, changed the coin slots of 3,390 turnstiles and simultaneously ended an era. After 44 years of riding the subways for a nickel, New Yorkers started paying a dime...
...stop program. Sporadically entertained by the Glee Club and the Band, the 1800 also were serenaded by assorted other musicians including a troop of Scotch bagpipers, an accordion player and an organ grinder with an aging monkey. Bobby, the monk, who winters in the Square, drew plaudits and coin as he entwined his tail around bare ankles...
...booth after booth, shapely models were mechanically whacked, pounded and rolled about. Among the exhibits: a coin-operated (50?), bedlike "Massage-O-Mat" for pummeling the body; a "Mac-Levy Leg Massager" for streamlining legs and thighs; chairs called "Gyro-Lators," with vibrating cushions and foot rests to slim down hips and titillate the soles of the feet. The beauticians had a deep interest in the new machines. They needed some tasty bait to get back the business they had lost through a revolution in the trade...
...Flip a Coin. As puzzled at the end of his tour as at the beginning, Economist Crowther said "almost every piece of evidence can be interpreted either way." He illustrated this bothersome ambivalence with an imaginary debate between a Pessimist and an Optimist. Samples...
...Senate Small Business Committee, inquiring into the way the Department of Commerce had been issuing export licenses, discovered that the licenses were the coin in a brisk and profitable business...