Word: slots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When spindly Ken Dixon became managing editor of the daily Lake Charles, La. American Press 2½ years ago, the gambling dens of Lake Charles (pop. 41,202) were thriving as mightily as its mushrooming oil and chemical plants. Far into the night, the slot machines clanked and roulette wheels whirred at the Green Frog...
...Maceos became top dogs of Galveston's illegal enterprises during the noisy era of Prohibition, and quietly expanded into the gambling field with a series of increasingly lush "clubs." They kept things quiet, and Galveston, which has a remarkable tolerance for slot machines, bars and bordellos, left them strictly to their own devices. Only the Texas Rangers tried to give them trouble. But the Maceos' biggest enterprise, the Balinese Room, is built at the end of a pier; liquor and gambling apparatus had a way of disappearing before the Rangers got in. When the coppers appeared, the band...
...Zenith's Phonevision, . .which pipes the unscrambling signal over telephone lines, with the charges going on monthly telephone bills (TIME, June 4); 2) Skiatron, which equips TV receivers with built-in "decoders" that are operated by special plastic cards; 3) Telemeter, which attaches a coin-in-the-slot gadget directly...
...Antonio last week, two businessmen installed a slot machine which advertised a hangover remedy for 25?. The remedy: a 30-second sniff of pure oxygen (which some people believe will mitigate hangovers), taken through a cone which the user holds to his nose...
Yale men are apparently unable to resist the lure of the quick buck: author last year removed 30 slot machines from dormitory hiding places...