Word: slotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zone, cleared the area around the plants, tore down pickets' shanties, hauled away a union sound truck, had four agitators jailed. Since the troops allowed no one into the zone without a military pass the sit-downers' food-supply was cut off. They patronized candy and peanut slot machines inside the plants, yawped hungrily from the windows. Cigarettes were at a premium. As every National Guard unit in Michigan was ordered mobilized for possible duty, John L. Lewis sped to the scene from Washington...
Moving with all the precision that will be required to end the General Motors strike, minions of the Maintenance division quietly removed the door from University A, lock, offending slot, and all, and took it to their laboratories for study...
...Slot machines originated in penny arcades and ended up in gangland. Chicago's boisterous Mills Brothers made a $10,000,000 business of their Mills Novelty Co. partly by making slot machines which became the instruments of a $150,000,000 racket (TIME, May 13. 1935). Since U. S. Courts began to take the fun out of this form of gambling, U. S. manufacturers have been busy taking the gambling out of this form of fun. In the last three years they have made 5? bagatelle a national craze, filled the land with glass enclosed, pin-studded playing fields...
...coin game can be equipped with a device for disgorging coins, can be regulated by the house as to the percentage paid to players. Some state laws make a distinction between games of "skill" which reward high scores and the old out-and-out slot machine of the lemon & cherry variety. Still manufactured by five companies, including Mills, these can be legally operated only in Florida, Nevada, Maine and South Dakota...
Basic patent in question concerned the shaving mechanism in the head of the razor. The Schick Dry Shaver tapers to a thin edge of metal perforated by tiny slots. Whiskers caught in these slots are cut off by a blade shuttling back and forth beneath them. The Lektro-Shaver differs by being roundheaded, with a single horizontal slot in which whiskers are sheared off by a blade in rocking motion. Dictograph held that these differences were essential and that the Schick patent had been anticipated, anyway, by an English inventor named Appleyard in 1913. The court, however, found the evidence...