Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coin gambling machines account for less than one-third of the Mills slot business. They make pin games; ordinary vending machines for gum. candy and cigarets; automatic phonographs that play one record for 5''. popular in post-Repeal "taverns" and "grills.'' Only significant non-slot Mills product is a counter ice cream freezer selling from...
Last week the Senate got around to discussing "pink slip" repeal. California's McAdoo had it on the best authority, he solemnly announced, that the nation's widows and widowers were planning a mass scrutiny of pink slips in a hunt for wealthy mates. Texas' Connally said one of his constituents wanted the publicity provision repealed so that his inquisitive mother-in-law could not determine his income, get her allowance raised...
...slip of his smooth tongue, Louisiana's Long blamed the repeal drive on the "bluted plotocracy." Up rose Maryland's Tydings to ask: "Since the Senator is so frank, what did he make last year?" "And what did he do with it?" put in West Virginia's Neely...
...Repeal has had markedly different effects on White Rock and Canada Dry. White Rock apparently suffered from the competition of cheaper carbonated waters. Canada Dry's main trouble, on the other hand, lay in the fact that with Repeal, it went into the liquor business. It bought an interest in a brewery, secured exclusive U. S. sales rights on Johnny Walker Scotch whiskey, Sandeman's wines and Cinzano vermouth. Finally it began marketing Canada Dry gin. The company now admits that these liquor ventures were not altogether successful. Net profit for 1934 of $439,500 was, according...
...Coca-Cola, which has successfully weathered every change in public taste for 48 years, Repeal had no effect. Whereas the average soft drink begins to lose favor after five years, Coca-Cola has shown no sign of fading vogue since a patent medicine man named Pemberton first concocted it in 1886. Every management that takes control makes more money than its predecessors. The Candlers of Atlanta, who got the company in 1892, rose from humble druggists to become one of Atlanta's richest families. Asa Candler sold out for $25,000,000 in 1919 to a group of Georgia...