Automatic Age

Automatic Merchandisers
Meet; Review Past,
Prcbe Future
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345 W. ERIE STREET
CHICAGO. 10. ILLINOIS
Saved Com pany
Friend: How did you
that medal?
win
Soldier: I saved the lives of
my entire company.
Friend: W onderful!
how did you do that?
And
Soldier: I shot the cook.
On Tuesday, May 2, at the
Palmer House, Chicago, the
first meeting of its kind since
Pearl Harbor was held under
the auspices of the National
A u t o m a t i c Merchandising
Association. The outstanding
manufacturers in t h i s field
were represented.
A number of speakers de­
livered thoughts ranging from
a review of the past and growth
of the industry from its humble
beginning to the present mag­
nitude of automatic merchand­
ising, and a l s o attempted to
probe the future possibilities of
the industry in the post-war
period. Nathaniel Leverone,
founder and president of A u­
tomatic Canteen Company, and
eight-time president of N A M A ,
held the attendants’ interest
with a feature talk. Mr. Lever-
one made a significant state­
ment to the effect that, the in­
dustry has achieved honesty
and confidence and commands
acceptance and recognition and
that automatic vending is a
sound business and one that
can not be retarded.
W hat used to be commonly
referred to as “ that kind of
business” now obtains respect­
ful treatment by congressional
committees and congressmen.
To this expression, Automatic
Age adds this thought: As the
industry develops capable lead­
ers in its ranks, and these lead­
ers shoulder their part of the
responsibility to
adequately
represent their industry, in like
measure will the industry be
accorded respect and fair hear­
ings and equitable considera­
tion.
Another s u b s i d a r y
thought is that: A handful of
men can only achieve sound
purposes to a limited extent,
therefore in the interest of big­
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ger and b e t t e r accomplish­
ments, an inter-industry pro­
gram s h o u l d be formulated
which will b a n d together a
larger number of men — manu­
facturers, distributors, a n d
operators, who will think and
act for and on behalf of the en­
tire coin-operated machine in­
dustry. In the minds of public
officials, the public press, and
the public itself, any machine
which is “ coin-operated” is one
and the same thing. The kettle
cannot well afford to call the
pan black.
Let our industry strive for
singleness of purpose -- to serve
the public in the way it wants
to be served.
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RR STATION ARCADE
Kruse & Connor, well known
operators in Chicagoland, have
m a r k e d up another success
with their establishment of an
arcade in the suburban railroad
station of the Illinois Central,
Randolph Street terminal. An
estimated 100,000 people traf­
fic this station, and the im­
mediate popularity o f t h i s
amusement center was estab­
lished. Successful operation of
locations of this type do more
to spread the popularity of au­
tomatic amusement machines
and acceptance on the part of
the public than a lot of words
and wishful thinking. Much
credit is due these live-wire
operators for their foresight
and accomplishment.
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Second Star for Packard
Packard
Manufacturing
Corp., Indianapolis, Ind., re­
cently was awarded the second
star for its proud “ E” flag, the
symbol for excellence in war
production. Each star signifies
continuance of the high stand­
ards of manufacture on behalf
of the war effort.
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