Automatic Age

The World’s First Coin Machine Magazine
JM ITO H A TIC AGE
Covering Autom atic Machines and Coin-Controlled Devices of
E very Description
Vol. 14
No. 10
M A Y 1938
Features in This Issue
Established 1925
Page
SORTING COINS WITH THE EDITOR
By Carroll E. V etterick___ —________ IB
NACOMM ANNOUNCES COIN SHOW AT
WORLD’S LARGEST H OTEL__________________ 15
CMMA RESUMES ASSOCIATION PROGRAM,
ANNOUNCES 19B9 SHOW P L A N S ____________ 17
O. C. L IG H T N E R
President
COLLECT PENNIES, WHILE WAITING FOR
NICKELS, says H. C. L em k e---------------------------- 19
INTEREST IN PENNY ARCADES DOUBLES
OVER LAST YEAR, says P. C. S m ith__________ 21
IN THE SPRING (Doll Up Your Routes
for the New Operating Season) ________________ 27
C A R R O L L E. V E T T E R IC K
SCALE OPERATING
By Charles Schlicht_—_____________ 31
Editor— Adv. Director
GOODBODY’S COLUMN
By John Goodbody —________________ 35
M A R T IN J. M RAZ
ASSOCIATION N E W S _________________________ 39
Ass’t. Editor
NEW PATENTS
By Ken C. Shyvers__________________ 45
TEN YEARS AGO______________ ______________ 51
Staff Contributors:
A PROFIT FOR SERVICE
By Herman Roshkind------—__________ 55
JOHN G O O D B O D Y
FOR AMUSEMENT O N L Y _____________________65
KEN S H Y V E R S
FROM OVER THE S E A _______________________ 83
ON THE R E C O R D ____________________________ 86
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