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"SPILLING THE BEANS"
PRINTS PINBALL STORY
Thanks to David S. Bond,
alert and progressive head of
the Trimount Coin Machine Co.,
Boston, Mass., who sent us the
clipping, Automatic Age is glad
to report this additional evi­
dence that pinball games have
an important and ever-widening
group of supporters in the ranks
of newspaper writers and col­
umnists.
“Spilling the Beans” is the
snappy title of column con­
ducted by Joseph F. Dinneen, a
daily feature of the Boston Daily
Globe. In the March 5 issue,
Dinneen prints a generous part
of the article “Pinball Players,
Arise!” which was printed in
full in our February issue, and
which was originally written by
H. Allen Smith, another news­
paper columnist, whose feature
“The Totem Pole” is distributed
by United Features Syndicate,
Inc., and is nationally used in
newspapers of great circulation.
Dinneen also adds his own ob­
servation as follows:
“Attracting Attention.— Pin­
ball games are currently attract­
ing wide a t t e n t i o n . The
Treasury Department in Wash­
ington acknowledges a take of
$5,000,000 a year from them.
A $10 a year tax on pinball
games and a $50 tax on slot ma­
chines went into effect last Oct.
1. Collections through Dec. 31,
1941, totalled $4,708,696.
“Pinball games have become a
big business and penny arcades
are springing up all over the lot.
Congress is looking into it and
a bill recently introduced would
authorize a new metal content
for the 5-cent piece in order to
conserve nickel.”
EXTENDS VENDOR ROUTE
Percy Burke, operator of bulk
merchandise vendors, located
principally in Aroostock County,
Maine, is enlarging his route.
March, 1942
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N EW A RK , N EW JE R S E Y
NEW MUSIC OPERATOR
K e n n e t h Vance, Detroit,
Mich., has established his head­
quarters at 2003 M c D o u g a 1
Ave., for the operation of a mu­
sic route.
"BUSINESS VERY G O O D ."
LAZAR REPORTS
B. D. and J. D. Lazar of the
B. D. Lazar Company of Pitts­
burgh paid a flying visit to Chi­
cago this week, transacted some
quick business and flew right
back again. These brothers, who
are veterans in the coin machine
business, have recently had their
territory expanded and now rep­
resent the Rock-Ola Manufac­
turing Corporation in the state
of West Virginia as well as in
the Pittsburgh area.
“Business is very good,” said
B. D. Lazar. In spite of the
fact that January and February
are usually dull months, they
have been successful in showing
a very nice increase.
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