Word: juke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distributor of phonograph music is the humble jukebox, which absorbs some 44% of the output of U. S. popular records, plays them at a nickel a throw in bars, dance dives and lunch counters throughout the U. S. In its simple form, the juke-box is complete with coin slots, colored lights and automatic record-changing mechanism for a stack of twelve to 24 discs. But during the past year, in a few western and midwestern U. S. cities, the juke-box has been menaced by science's onward march. The menace: a chain system of jukeboxes, all wired...
...where new ways and weapons are tested, the soldiers of this new Army acted pretty much as sol diers always have. On their nights off they sought liquor and girls in the dollar-houses and tawdry taverns of staid old Columbus, Ga., or in the honky-tonk and juke joints across the Chattahoochee River in wild, wide-open Phenix City, Ala. The liquor was there, but the girls were gone or going, lining the roadsides in their bright dresses to bum rides to fairer pastures. This seemed strange behavior, for troops by the thousand were assembling in the South...
First the sheep sang Oh, I Got a Little Brother in the New Graveyard, then the goats did a juke-joint caper, Let the Deal Go Down. Brother Wilson preached in the words of the great James Weldon Johnson...
...investors lost millions. Director Roosevelt had resigned (in the fall of 1928) to run for Governor of New York. For the time being the Roosevelt interest in slot machines waned, and almost undisputed kingpin of the U. S. slot and vending machine trade (pinball games, crackerjack machines, juke boxes) was once more Chicago's Mills Novelty...
...September his U. S. records had begun to muscle in on the 35? juke-box trade, where Decca had been making hay. By last week U. S. Records (Royale and Varsity) had ended its first six months with an output of 1,500,000. Its biggest hit to date, Johnny Messner's suggestive She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor, had sold more than 150,000 copies...