Word: slotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as this deal became known, Western Union reported that it was completing arrangements with Shell Eastern to install slot telephones in Shell's stations, enable customers to deal directly with the telegraph company. This contract involves 320 filling stations. Other Shell subsidiaries may soon raise the total to around 1,300. Negotiations are also reported between Western Union and Richfield, Sinclair, Cities Service. New England filling stations, not the telegraph companies, are supposed to have originated the telegram service idea, which follows closely on the now widespread policy of selling tires in gas stations...
...mayor of Scranton. The citizens were proud of him, suspected nothing until his last year in office when ugly stories of graft and corruption began to seep from City Hall. A grand jury investigated, found that racketeers were paying City Hall officials for police protection for certain gambling slot-machines. Scrantonians could not understand why Mayor Jermyn, already possessed of ample means, should stoop to racketeer graft...
Last Spring a Lackawanna County jury convicted him, his cousin Harry C. Friend and others of conspiracy as a result of the slot machine graft. Edward Miller, racketeer, had testified that he paid $4 per slot machine for protection, that Friend kept $1 and passed the balance on to "City Hall," that his monthly payments averaged...
...Tenino, Wash., Mark O'Neil went fishing, caught one trout, dragged up one slot machine, in which he dropped a nickel. The machine did not work...
...nine, a problem stared by those who enter laboratories at eight o'clock for a two or three hour session. Confronted with a somewhat similar situation, progressive banks have established a convenient means of after hour deposits. Widener could be made equally progressive by the installation of a slot in the door making it possible to return books at any hour when the library is closed. Under this system it would be a simple matter to get the books off one's mind and be free of the worry of a difficult return at nine o'clock...