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W ALTER W. HURD
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AUTOM ATIC AGE
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Vol. 7, No. 10
M A Y , 1931
M A Y — and the general public interest turns to
ward the great outdoors, and amusements of all
kinds. This tendency introduces an opportune
season for coin operated amusement machines of
all kinds, since these devices are of such quality
and variety now as to contribute a considerable
share to satisfying the American appetite for fun.
Amusement machines promise to become a dis
tinct and increasingly important division of the
coin machine industry, and at the beginning of
the 1931 season the May issue is devoted some
what to amusement machines and the opportuni
ties for operating them. In June we plan to turn
special attention toward ice ci'earm and frozen
confection venders, beverage dispensers and other
venders using refrigeration ._ Frozen fruit juice
concerns are considenng vending machines as
special channels for distribution, which means a
new and large field whenever quality vending ma
chines are ready to do the distribution of such
products. Amusement machines ivill not drop
from sight of course until the summer season is
over, and confidential information which we have
on new inventions and ideas in the making in
dicates that the summer will not be a dull season
in the automatic trade at all. Everybody seems to
agree that the season offers better opportunities
to the automatic trade than to most other business
enterprises.
The National Magazine of the Vending Machine Industry
Table of Contents and Advertising Index for this issue will be found near
the inside back cover
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