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...Slug, Please. Sometimes one batsman, alternating with a teammate, stays UD all afternoon. A 'half-century (50 runs) causes decorous applause; a century a little more. Australia's Bradman, the greatest player of the game today, now making a comeback after getting fibrositis while in the Army, once made 334 runs in an innings. Slugging for the fences, a la baseball, is considered unrefined...
...Slugs Need Apply. But the most potent name in the industry is that of a company which makes comparatively few complete machines: National Slug Rejectors, Inc., of St. Louis. National Slug is the keystone of the entire industry: it makes the part of vending machines which rejects counterfeits and slugs. President and principal stockholder is John Gottfried, 46, a stocky, grey-haired, German immigrant. He had tinkered with gadgets for years before he stumbled on the simple system of his rejector. *He first tried to put his invention across in 1928. The effort failed. John Gottfried said that perhaps "people...
Like the rest of the industry, National Slug is also looking ahead. In the works are: 1) a machine that will sell fresh meat and fish at odd prices (e.g., a pound of fish for 38?); 2) a soft-drink dispenser that will take as large a coin as a quarter, return 20? in change. In ten years, the happy gadgeteers expect the automatic vending industry to be one of the nation's top retailers, gross about $3 billion...
Right at the start of last week's title bout in half-filled Yankee Stadium (crowd: 39,827), Tony showed that he was going to slug it out Rocky's way. Midway in the first round he lashed a right uppercut and a left hook to the challenger's jaw. Rocky went down for a count of four. In the next round he gave Zale the pounding of his life. Standing flat-footed at close range, he swung right after right, often starting with his fist at knee level and finishing with it flush against the champion...
...slug to the snail," says Peter J. Henniker Heaton with the finality of a man disposing of an issue once & for all, "is as the vagabond to the ratepayer...