Word: slotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States' retort is that what they are issuing is not "legal tender" and therefore worthless for anything but their sales tax. Illinois has issued round aluminum tokens about the size of a dime, is now issuing larger square tokens that are less apt to be misused in telephones, slot machines and other coin devices. In Washington the round metal pieces have a hole in them and are worth two mills each in taxes. Colorado, which has had a sales tax for the last six months, last week began to use for the first time square, aluminum tokens, with blunt...
Headquarters: Say, Buck, take your two slot machines down...
Headquarters: Take those slot machines down. . . . There's a couple of guys coming right over...
...records showed that, with police connivance, bookmakers, slot-machine operators, brothel keepers were systematically tipped off in advance of raids upon their premises. Not only did the police maintain a profitable partnership with lawbreakers, but they were in cahoots with lawyers, who were duly advised when a likely case was in the making. Sample conversation...
Incarcerated in an attic room at New York, with a small slot in the door through which meals were served to him, Paul N. Heffernan of the Harvard Architectural School last night concluded a 36-hour vigil in competition for a fellowship which will mean two and a half years of study at the Ecole des Beaux Architects for the winner...