Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)
Issue: 1946 May - Page 86
Mail Order CiCJs Give
Florida Pain in BudCJet
COIN
Beautifully designed and well con-
structed of strong. highly polished
aluminum castings with a crystal-
clear globe to display the nuts most
appetizingly. A "Flasher" calls atten-
tion to the machine to insure maxi-
mum sales.
MR~~~:E The Asco 5c Hot Nut Automatic Dis-
86
penser Is a fool-proof vendor that
will produce big profits for you.
FOR
MAY
1946
Send for our
Illustrated ' Boo"'et .
Height 21 Inches. Base 7 Inches
wide. 9 inches deep. Floor Stands
and WaU Brackets Available.
"AS CO BUSINESS PLAN
FOR YOU"
A~S~b~
TAMPA-The heavy Florida State cigar-
ette tax is causing a boom in the out·of-
state mail order business and is costing
Florida thousands of tax dollars.
Last year the State cigarette tax was
increased to four cents, bringing the gen·
eral retail price up to 20 cents a package.
All taxes included, Florida cigarette smok-
ers are paying more than 20 million dol·
lars a year for their habit.
Mail order dealers in other states-
principally New Jersey-who are not sub·
ject to Florida's tax are making a big
thing of this situation. Floridians who pay
$2.00 for ten packages of cigarettes, or
$1. 70 a carton, are good customers for
dealers whose advertisements offer popular
brands at $1.35, postage prepaid.
The customer generally has to buy three
cartons at a time, but for the investment
of a three-cent stamp he saves from 35 to
65 cents a carton, or from $1.05 to $1.95
on the three cartons.
This development long ago was predicted
hy opponents of the State cigarette tax,
but during the war most people had plenty
of money and apparently did not care
how much their smokes cost. Now it's a
different situation, Floridians are taking
the easy way out, and the mail order
business is definitely on the increase.
Advocates of high cigarette taxes can
point to. England, where taxation has put
cigarettes up to the equivalent of around
50 cents for a package of 20. And in
France, American cigarettes are selling at
10 cents apiece, at the equivalent of two
dollars a package.
But high cigarette taxes have proved a
boomerang in Florida, where returned vet·
erans not so long ago were paying six
cen ts a package for cigarettes overseas.
The net result is that the average citizen
who generally realizes his obligations to
the State is openly engaged in tax evasion,
the state is losing more money than anyone
can estimate, legitimate operators are suf·
fering a loss of trade, 'and the legislature
is confronted with the problem of "doing
something" to recapture the revenue they
had anticipated when they piled on the tax.
Now Availab'e for
VENDING MACHINE EXCHANGE
55 -57-59 Branford Street
.
Newark 5, N. J.
Bigelow 3-7744-5
Big Sales Predicted
For Vitamin K Gum
CHICAGO-The addition of Vitamin K
to chewing gum for the purpose of helping
prevent tooth decay, as reported in the
April issue of THE COIN MACHINE REVIEW,
may eventually increase sales of gum to
unprecedented highs, according to officials
of the Wm. Wrigley, Jr., Co. and Beech·
Nut Packing Co., joint sponsors of the
Vitamin K research project at Northwestern
University's dental school.
Experiments conducted over a period of
many months by Dr. Leonard S. Fisdick
prove that Vitamin K when compounded
with gum retards formation of food acids
which apparently cause tooth decay and
reduces the incident of cavities from 60
to 90 per cent.
Philip K. Wrigley, board chairman of
the Chicago company, points out that
there is no Vitamin K gum on the market
yet, adding that "the time for its intro·
duction to the public has not been deter·
mined."
Wrigley conceived the anti-caries hunt
before the war, and the first tests were
started at that time. Students who chewed
the test product found its taste acceptable
and hardly distinguishable from the various
regular brands.
New Bar-"Hats Off"
BROOKL YN-"Hats Off," a solid choco-
late bar made of fine grade chocolate,
raisins and peanuts, is a new product of
the ultra-modern factory of the Gold Medal
Candy Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y., manufac-
turers of the popular "Thanks" bar and
"Olde English Peanut Brittle."
Victor Bonomo is executive director of
the confectionery concern.
..
PANORAM or
SOLOVUE
"Sensational
Specialties from the
Night Clubs"
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Heels Over Head
Hillbilly Heat Wave
ShakinCJ the Uli Uli
Lucia Land
Natoma & Mr.
Frederick
6. Cubanafro
$36.00
Per Whee' of 51" Subjects
Sound or Snent
Florida Pain in BudCJet
COIN
Beautifully designed and well con-
structed of strong. highly polished
aluminum castings with a crystal-
clear globe to display the nuts most
appetizingly. A "Flasher" calls atten-
tion to the machine to insure maxi-
mum sales.
MR~~~:E The Asco 5c Hot Nut Automatic Dis-
86
penser Is a fool-proof vendor that
will produce big profits for you.
FOR
MAY
1946
Send for our
Illustrated ' Boo"'et .
Height 21 Inches. Base 7 Inches
wide. 9 inches deep. Floor Stands
and WaU Brackets Available.
"AS CO BUSINESS PLAN
FOR YOU"
A~S~b~
TAMPA-The heavy Florida State cigar-
ette tax is causing a boom in the out·of-
state mail order business and is costing
Florida thousands of tax dollars.
Last year the State cigarette tax was
increased to four cents, bringing the gen·
eral retail price up to 20 cents a package.
All taxes included, Florida cigarette smok-
ers are paying more than 20 million dol·
lars a year for their habit.
Mail order dealers in other states-
principally New Jersey-who are not sub·
ject to Florida's tax are making a big
thing of this situation. Floridians who pay
$2.00 for ten packages of cigarettes, or
$1. 70 a carton, are good customers for
dealers whose advertisements offer popular
brands at $1.35, postage prepaid.
The customer generally has to buy three
cartons at a time, but for the investment
of a three-cent stamp he saves from 35 to
65 cents a carton, or from $1.05 to $1.95
on the three cartons.
This development long ago was predicted
hy opponents of the State cigarette tax,
but during the war most people had plenty
of money and apparently did not care
how much their smokes cost. Now it's a
different situation, Floridians are taking
the easy way out, and the mail order
business is definitely on the increase.
Advocates of high cigarette taxes can
point to. England, where taxation has put
cigarettes up to the equivalent of around
50 cents for a package of 20. And in
France, American cigarettes are selling at
10 cents apiece, at the equivalent of two
dollars a package.
But high cigarette taxes have proved a
boomerang in Florida, where returned vet·
erans not so long ago were paying six
cen ts a package for cigarettes overseas.
The net result is that the average citizen
who generally realizes his obligations to
the State is openly engaged in tax evasion,
the state is losing more money than anyone
can estimate, legitimate operators are suf·
fering a loss of trade, 'and the legislature
is confronted with the problem of "doing
something" to recapture the revenue they
had anticipated when they piled on the tax.
Now Availab'e for
VENDING MACHINE EXCHANGE
55 -57-59 Branford Street
.
Newark 5, N. J.
Bigelow 3-7744-5
Big Sales Predicted
For Vitamin K Gum
CHICAGO-The addition of Vitamin K
to chewing gum for the purpose of helping
prevent tooth decay, as reported in the
April issue of THE COIN MACHINE REVIEW,
may eventually increase sales of gum to
unprecedented highs, according to officials
of the Wm. Wrigley, Jr., Co. and Beech·
Nut Packing Co., joint sponsors of the
Vitamin K research project at Northwestern
University's dental school.
Experiments conducted over a period of
many months by Dr. Leonard S. Fisdick
prove that Vitamin K when compounded
with gum retards formation of food acids
which apparently cause tooth decay and
reduces the incident of cavities from 60
to 90 per cent.
Philip K. Wrigley, board chairman of
the Chicago company, points out that
there is no Vitamin K gum on the market
yet, adding that "the time for its intro·
duction to the public has not been deter·
mined."
Wrigley conceived the anti-caries hunt
before the war, and the first tests were
started at that time. Students who chewed
the test product found its taste acceptable
and hardly distinguishable from the various
regular brands.
New Bar-"Hats Off"
BROOKL YN-"Hats Off," a solid choco-
late bar made of fine grade chocolate,
raisins and peanuts, is a new product of
the ultra-modern factory of the Gold Medal
Candy Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y., manufac-
turers of the popular "Thanks" bar and
"Olde English Peanut Brittle."
Victor Bonomo is executive director of
the confectionery concern.
..
PANORAM or
SOLOVUE
"Sensational
Specialties from the
Night Clubs"
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Heels Over Head
Hillbilly Heat Wave
ShakinCJ the Uli Uli
Lucia Land
Natoma & Mr.
Frederick
6. Cubanafro
$36.00
Per Whee' of 51" Subjects
Sound or Snent
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