Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

NAVY WIFE
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COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
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FOR
SEPTEMBER
1943
cleaned and oiled for storing for the D ura·
tion, and we were swamped. Had I been
able to anticipa te the delay in rationing
the influx might have been more gradual,
but I had visions of my lugging nut rna·
chines home from way points on the bus,
and so the order was to bring 'em on in.
Two days after I had driven the baby
down to my mother in Santa Cruz- I had
found no housekeeper-my father called
to tell me my mother had broken her right
arm and would I PLEASE come right
down and collect my child. At the store I
lined a pin game with quilted padding,
and each day after her bath she was sup·
posed to go to sleep there. All I can say
now is that it didn't work out that way,
and over the din of nut machines being
cleaned and repa ired, of the telephone's
ringing with service calls, of customers
demanding to know why I was holding out
nuts and candy on the faith fu l, could be
heard the baby screaming her protests at
the war and women in work. One day I
simply could not stand it any more and
I had the home plume printed for the front
of each piece of equipment. The day that
appeared on the equipment my hushand
came home for a month's leave!
I have grown older and wiser in the
cojn machine _business. Some of the prac.
tices I see shock me; they are so unethical.
Talking with men in other fields convinces
me that one finds the same practices in all
businesses; I just hadn't been around much
before. We are primarily a phonograph op·
erating business at present, that business
that was born in the middle of the last De·
pression and will be hitting hard in the
middle. of the next. We are building it
Bally awards Bonds for faithful attendance. Left to right: Bert Perlcins, formerly
salesmanager of beverage vendor division of Bally Mfg. Co., and now personnel manager
of the war plant; Pauline Burke , Nu rse Anne McGuire , Elmer Biedenweg . Mildred Nock
and Anne Jacobsen.
with that in mind. We now have a double·
entry system of bookkeeping, a cost·ac·
counting breakdown, a trial balance made
on the first of each month, and I am still
not good in math. When my husband gets
occasional leaves he is distinctly sad over
the flaws I have allowed to creep into the
management of the business. But there still
is a business for him to come back to,
which is every wife's dream. It won't be
the same business he left, either. He has
to reckon with a new voice of experience
7"his wife's. I resigned my nice, secure
teaching position last week.
WANT TO BUY-
OSED 5·BALL FREE PLAY GAMES
FIVE AND TEN
LIBERTY
AIR CIRCUS
DEFENSE
KEEP 'EM FLYING
SKY CHIEF
VICTORY
FOUR ACES
Quote lowest price in first letter to save time. Immediate cash ready
and we will buy any quantity.
Machines must be checked and overhauled and in First Class Condition.
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IBVING BBOMBEBG COMPANY
1349 W. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles 7. California ,
PRospect 2830
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