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THE COIN MACHINE JOURNAL
December, 1946
Inspired Industry Awaits
'47 Show
By DA VE GOTTLIEB, President
Coin Machine Industries, Inc., and
Pioneer Operator and Manufacturer
Never has a coin machine show been
more eagerly awaited than the great
convention of our industry in the Hotel
Sherman, February 3, 4, 5, 6, 1947.
Always in the past, we were a little
uncertain right up to a week before
opening on just how big and universal
the show might be. In the past we
have even had space available right
up to the show opening.
This time it is totally different.
More than two months before open-
ing day we found ourselves entirely
sold out of exhibition space. All indi-
cations presage an attendance of at
least 12,000 operators. Our show pro-
gram this time will be more complete
than ever before, and every visitor to
Chicago during Coin Machine Week
Dave Gottlieb
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will gain more profit from his trip
than from any other in the past.
Our last Coin Machine Show was
in January, 1941, six years ago! Six
years is a long time to go without a
general exhibition for the trade, but
the war forced us, as well as all other
trade associations, to do it. In Decem-
ber of 1941, I wrote a statement giv-
ing reasons why I thought we should
hold a show in 1942 - and than all
of a sudden Pearl Harbor happened!
The show was off and the Coin Ma-
chine Industry which already had join-
ed heart and soul with our country
in defense manufacturing, threw itself
100% into war production. We all
knew that, in that global war, all
civilian goods were out of the ques-
tion and every single machine and
hand was needed for the war imple-
ments that must bring victory.
Enviable War Record
The record of our industry in the
war is outstanding. A large number
of our factories received "E" awards
and those which did not receive these
awards were probably not eligible be-
cause they were doing subcontracting.
The real story of war production in
coin machine factories has never been
told. Because we had the inventors,
the engineers and the modern know-
how in electronics, radio, and tricky
electrical gadgets of every description,
some of the most delicate problems in
detection, communications, timing de-
vices, and automatic controls were
turned over to our factories. Most of
the work was extremely secret, but
the top men in the Army and Navy
have acknowledged t he debt of grati-
tude they owe our inventors, develop-
ers, and engineers. Their opinion,
succinctly stated, was "You're the
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