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...which have forced operators to either 1) continue selling for a nickel and absorb the rise themselves or 2) charge a dime and pack 4? change in with each bar. But the industry hopes to lick this problem with a machine that will make change for any coin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Silent Salesmen | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...this booming business is shared by nearly 200 manufacturers. Among the biggest are Rowe (cigarets), Du Grenier (cigarets and candy), Mills (unrelated to Bert E.) Novelty (Coca-Cola and familiar "one-arm-bandit gambling machines") and Automatic Canteen (snacks). The industry has lately attracted such companies as Bell Aircraft (coin changer) and General Electric (hotdog cooker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Silent Salesmen | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Like the rest of the industry, National Slug is also looking ahead. In the works are: 1) a machine that will sell fresh meat and fish at odd prices (e.g., a pound of fish for 38?); 2) a soft-drink dispenser that will take as large a coin as a quarter, return 20? in change. In ten years, the happy gadgeteers expect the automatic vending industry to be one of the nation's top retailers, gross about $3 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Silent Salesmen | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...purse in a Hollywood nightclub. The purse's contents: a diamond-studded gold cigaret lighter, a diamond-studded gold cigaret holder, a diamond-studded gold compact, a diamond-studded gold lipstick-&-perfume set, a diamond-studded pillbox, a solid gold scratch pad and pencil, a diamond-&-gold coin purse, a diamond-studded gold money clip, $500 in cash, and 40 solid gold keys. But no tooth powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 7, 1946 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...these other alternatives, one so risky, the other so filled with doom, seemed poor payment to the Western World for the blood, sweat and tears of a war just ended. Henry Wallace has minted a brighter coin. Russian Communism and the free-enterprise system, he said, could live "one with another in a profitable and productive peace." U.S. democracy and Russian Communism could divide the world into spheres of influence and get along. Wallace offered "peace for our time." The coin was bright, but it had a faintly familiar and counterfeit ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Great Endeavor | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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