Word: rabkin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the American Dental Association met in New Orleans last week it was no secret that a low opinion was prevalent of the past, present and future of human dentition. Dr. Nye W. Goodman of Los Angeles declared that a great many people were "dental cripples." Dr. Samuel Rabkin of Cincinnati, who believes that wars and economic struggle are factors in tooth decline, showed photographs of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon skulls proving that even those oldtimers had pyorrhea. On exhibit from Northwestern University was a ponderous Stone Age flint hammer, presumably an early instrument for curing dental hurts since...
...penny arcades of upper Broadway, in the gaudy Sixth Avenue Sportland of Schork & Schaffer, in all the dark and smoky dens where New Yorkers drop hundreds of millions of nickels into coin machines and peep shows, the name of William Rabkin is great indeed. A fast-talking Jew of 40 with a passion for invention, William Rabkin gave the world the coin-operated electric digger. This glass-encased device has nervous metal claws on the end of a shaft which is manipulated by a row of dials outside. The shaft hangs over a pile of hard candies. With a little...
...Rabkin is president and owner of International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc. The company was founded in 1895 to make peep shows of girls going to bed, the cook kissing the policeman and little Johnny getting a spanking. One of the firm's early artists was Mary Pickford, hired to pose at $5 per day when the weather was good. Photographs were taken on the roof of the company's building on 14th Street, under the direction of David Wark Griffith, whose salary was $25 per week. Soon the little company, then called American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., split, Biograph...
...Manhattan office last week Mr. Rabkin rubbed his hands with ill-concealed delight. Business was on the boom. This year the makers of penny arcade machines had hoped to gross $7,500,000. Already their income was above that figure. "Why, the industry's going to take in $12,000,000," chuckled Mr. Rabkin. His colleagues knew that the principal reason for their joyous prosperity was that glass-encased gadget which is currently the most popular and the most profitable of all penny arcade devices-the pin game...
...manufacturers like Rabkin, and Chicago's D. Gottlieb & Co., Bally Manufacturing Co., Genco, Inc., and Rockola Manufacturing Co., are never at a loss for new ideas. Last week Mr. Rabkin's staff of artists and engineers were busy on a pin game checker board in red, gold and black with bulbous gold clouds from which issue silver thunderbolts. Before it is released this week or next the final drawings will be submitted to a commercial artist for advice. The firm's own designers, says Mr. Rabkin, get so wrought up over each new creation that they...