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Word: insurograph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1938-1938
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Anyone between 15 and 60 who wishes to insure himself against accidents for 24 hours-maximum indemnity, $7,500-will drop a quarter in the Insurograph and pull a lever. A glass panel slides back; he writes his name and the name of his beneficiary. The time of day is then stamped on the policy (issued by Great Northern Life Insurance Co. of Milwaukee), it is violently ejected from the machine and the customer is thereupon properly insured against "loss of life, limb, limbs or time by accidental means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Quarter in the Slot | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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