Automatic Age

FREE BOOKLET FOR
VENDING OPERATORS
Making every bit of candy
available serve its purpose is
mighty important t h e s e war
days of scarcity. As a service to
v e n d i n g machine operators,
Pan Confections, 345 W . Erie
Street, Chicago 10, 111., has pre­
pared a useful booklet on the
care and handling of vending
machine candies. It is free for
the asking. Send your request
direct to Pan.
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Schaeffer Reviews Gum
Situation for Venders
A . J. Schaeffer, general man­
ager, American Chewing Prod­
ucts Corporation, Newark, N.
J., well known to vending oper­
ators for its gum products es­
pecially manufactured for ma­
chine vending, made a signi­
ficant report of wide interest
to the industry.
‘‘A t a t i m e when our big
chance has come,” Schaeffer
states, “ we can do little about
it. Just as the popular adver­
tised brands have been hit by
government demand and gen­
eral restrictions, we have re­
ceived the axe proportionately.
Our allotments of corn sirup
and sugar have been cut drast­
ically. W e are very low on lab­
els and corrugated shipping
cartons. The labor situation is
a mess. People who think that
the armed services have tapped
only the major gum firms and
omitted the remainder should
be corrected. W e have to sup­
ply up to 60 per cent of our
total yearly output. It is all we
can do to supply a portion of
our counter trade and will be
able to do very little for the
machines.”
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A Familiar Name Changes
Gerber & Glass Distributing
Company, C h i c a g o , which
achieved nation-wide promin­
ence u n d e r the guidance of
Paul Gerber and Max Glass,
will carry on under the name
of Max Glass Distributing Co.
The change was effected by the
purchase of the late Paul Ger­
ber’s interest by Max Glass.
Max Glass will carry on in the
tradition which brought great
success ever since the original
firm was organized over ten
years ago.
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Fresh W ater Sailor
“ Did that sailor get fresh
with you last night?”
“ Mother, you don’t think he
came all the way over from
that battleship just to listen to
the radio, do yo u ?”
INDUSTRY EXPANSIONS
New firms, n e w locations,
and general changes in opera­
tions which clenote expansion
of the industry are reflected in
the following notes:
Charles H. Dravine, operat­
ing a n e w automatic phono­
graph business under t r a d e
name “ Tone-O-M atic” , 4721
Frankford Ave., Philadelphia.
Robert N. Krauss established
Automatic Machine Co., 2033
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
Isidor Edelman has a new
location for E d e l m a n Coin
Amusematics Co., Inc., at 2459
Grand River Ave., Detroit. A
corporation charter was grant­
ed recently, with $10,000 cap­
italization.
Harry Urban and Lee House­
man, have moved their firm,
Ace Coin Machine Company
to 2125 Cedar Spring Ave., Dal­
las, Texas.
Jerry Kertman, o w n e r of
American Coin Machine Com­
pany, has purchased the mod­
ern building at 573 C l i n t o n
Ave., N., Rochester, N. Y .,
where more space and facilities
are available for t h e firms
operations. Harry Kertman will
continue the phonograph and
game end of this business at
the present location.
N E W BA L L Y PLAN T has 125,000 square feet of floor space. Although now entirely devoted to war
production, the factory is designed to be the world’s most modern coin-machine plant.
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