July, 1940
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{RUBBER AND TIN
MARKETS SOAR;
COPPER GAINS
BUSINESS IS
BOUND TO BE GOOD!
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O. C. L IG H T N E R
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EAD the financial pages
c a r e fu lly th ese d a y s.
There you will find ac
counts telling where millions in
^ ar money is being spent on
new factories and additions.
These factories are splendid lo
cations for operators. They will
he taking on thousands of men
at good wages. They are ideal
f°r almost any type of machine,
Particularly merchandising ma
chines.
dustry, it is said the coin ma
chines got the biggest slice of
bonus money in 1936. Maybe
that might be overstated but
certainly the boys started routes
of machines with their bonus
money. The defense fund money
may not provide as big an op
portunity, but it does open up
thousands of new locations, and
there ought to be a spurt of
orders between now and Fall for
machines to be placed in these
Defense money will be
distributed p r e tty well
around t h e co u n try .
Every state and almost
every congressional dis
trict will get some. Cer
tain fa c t o r ie s making
^a r materials will nat
Urally be well guarded,
hut established operators
should easily get in to
Place machines. That’s
^here your association
Can help you, or your local
congressman can some-
Unes vouch for you. Call at-
eution to the fact that if a man
can get a chocolate bar between
Steals, it is a pickup. A soft-
rh*k machine would be a nat
ural for such places. There are,
°* course, always the recreation
^°oms. where games, scales and
Cerent types of machines get
a hig play.
Next to the automobile indus-
ry and the home-building in-
N ew Locations O pening D aily
locations. The money is already
available and is being put into
circulation rapidly. If you have
been more or less dormant in
operating, and are in position
to move your equipment quickly,
make a bee-line for the best cen
ter of new locations, airplane
schools, machine-tool plants and
other war industries. You can
usually locate them by watching
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the financial pages of the daily
papers.
Not only is there a lot of
United States defense money
about— millions of dollars from
France and England are also
being spent here.
England has stated that even
though France should cease
fighting, she will take up all
French orders on hand in the
United States and pay for them
herself.
It is indeed hard for
the human mind to vi
sualize these millions
and millions of dollars.
Like the distance from
the earth to the moon, it
is an incredible amount.
Still, its being spent, and
wise operators will not
let the opportunity pass
to get in on the ground
floor with their equip
ment. Business is bound
to be good!
Many of the leading
industrial plants are ex
panding present facilities to
handle army and navy prepard-
ness programs.
As an indication of how in
dustry is meeting the demand
for increased activity, it was re
ported by a top official of the
Chrysler Corporation that his
organization is setting up a
separate division to handle this
type of work.
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