Word: slotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Slot Machines...
Shame on you for the use of such terms as "few people ever expected" and "for that surprising purpose" in connection with Wichita's peddling of insurance through slot machines! [TIME...
Many an able man has spent years thinking up ways of selling insurance. Up to last week few people ever expected anyone to sell it in slot machines. The In-surograph Agency of America, incorporated in Kansas for that surprising purpose, is the notion of a small group of Wichita businessmen. In about two weeks Standard Register Co. of Dayton will begin manufacturing machines for them to put in railway and bus stations...
...library by 9 o'clock at Vassar, but there is group of enterprising young things have gone into the business of returning books for a penny apiece. They have a box in the hall of each dormitory where you dump the book and leave a penny in the slot, then they wheel a cart around and pick up the boxes and take them to the library...
...Automat itself, came to a sudden end last week after five uproarious months. The strike was called last August by two unions, Bakery Workers and Cafeteria Employes, after they lost a collective bargaining election. Less than 500 of the 5,600 employes of the Horn & Hardart nickel-in-the-slot restaurant chain walked out, but what they lacked in numbers was more than made up in zeal. For the dispute soon boiled down to old-fashioned police-baiting. Immediate issue was the right of the police to limit the number of pickets. Total arrests ran above...