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Official Organ: Chicago Vending Machine Operators' Association
Official Organ: Milwaukee Vending Machine Operators' Association
Official Organ: National Vending Machine Manufacturers Association
Executive Office, 2721 S. Michigan, Chicago, 111. Phone Victory 0090
New York Office: 1002 Grand Central Terminal.
Telephone Vanderbilt 9667.
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This Is the Day
Of Organization
Last March the National Vending Machine Man­
ufacturers’ Association was formed in Chicago. Its membership
is composed of most of the established manufacturers in the trade.
It is headed by Irl E . La Grange, Treasurer of the Pulver Gum
Co., a reputable and successful institution. Its secretary is A . W-
Blendow, who has served a number of years as National secretary
of the Chewing Gum M anufacturers’ Association. On its director­
ate are men who are heading even larger concerns. We under­
stand that it has now reached the point where -50 per cent of the
m anufacturers in the industry are active members. Twenty-five
per cent of the balance are very small and struggling concerns who
are probably having a fight for their existence. The other 25 pel’
cent are concerns who should but have not joined the association*
A s is well known in association work, the big and successful con­
cerns all realize the need of the organization and are the first to
become members. Usually the trouble is in getting the small fel'
lows in line in order that something can be accomplished through :
a practically unanimous action. Here we iind the opposite fro#1 j
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