Word: slot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subway Tickets. Waiting for change at a subway ticket wicket has been done away with in parts of London. An efficient slot machine takes the money, makes the change, prints, dates, issues the ticket; all in exactly one second. Unscrupulous voyagers who feed it counterfeit coins are certain of detection. Electricity tests the. piece for conductivity as it drops in. If it is found wanting, it is angrily spat forth...
Photomaton Inc. (Quarter-in-the-slot picture machine)-$107,088. No previous statement. Incorporated in April 1927, Photomaton Inc. has grown from one studio...
Charlie Molina, 17, of Boston, Mass., needed a haircut so visibly that his school principal gave him 35? to get one. He increased his capital to $1 by playing a slot machine, spent the $1 at the cinema, had his father cut his hair. The school principal had the owner of the slot machine arrested and convicted for running a lottery...
...Rain Coats:" Here are facts, but trivial. 'Twould have been better to have reported them under SCIENCE as a significant extension of the nickel-in-the-slot idea...
Mechanical geniuses congratulated themselves that they and their kind have now provided society with coin-in-the-slot dispensaries of nuts chewing gum candy weighing stamps matches cigarets hair combs soap perfume shoe shines music electric shocks crude cinema horoscopes telephoning cooked food photographs drinking cups handkerchiefs napkins comfort subway rides soft drinks cosmetics name plates Other mechanical geniuses wondered if fortunes might not be made by furnishing society with coin-in-the-slot dispensaries...