O. C. LIGHTNER
President
,
WALTER W. HURD
Managing Editor
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OCTOBER, 1931
Vol. 8, No. 3
OCTOBER— brings the. autumn season in full
blast and insofar as the weatherman goes, it
strikes a good average for all types of coin oper
ated machines. While there has been nothing
startling in the way of new developments of late,
still there is enough news of new devices in this
issue to indicate that the trade is very much alive
and handicapped only by whatever financial re
strictions general business imposes. We introduce
in this issue special departments of news relating
to products that are especially adaptable to vend
ing by machine and which promise the greatest
future for the use of machine selling. These
products include candy, cigars, cigarettes, chewing
gum, beverages, ice cream, etc. Machines for sell
ing some of these products are still in the develop
mental stage, but the prospects are such as to mer
it lively interest in the products that are to be
sold. It is a pioneering service on our part and
there are indications that such businesses as the
candy and tobacco trades will soon be co-operating
to help bring vending machines into greater use
for selling items well adapted to vending auto
matically. While we try to boost the strictly mer
chandising machines in this way, we are not for
getting other types of machines. Penny scales
and coin phonographs will receive due attention
in the November issue.
The National Magazine of the Vending Machine Industry
Table of Contents and Advertising Index for this issue wiU be found near
the inside back cover
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