Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevada Assemblyman C. C. Boak, 79, introduced a bill to grant divorces by slot machine. The divorce seeker would punch the machine once a day for 42 days, to establish residence, then insert 200 silver dollars. As the divorce popped out of a slot, colored lights would flash, wheels spin and a jukebox would play America. ¶ Hoping to sell more pretzels during Lent, Alex V. Tisdale, president of the National Pretzel Bakers Institute, explained that the twist was originally supposed to represent arms folded in prayer...
...Washington, Correspondent Louis Banks turned out 24 pages of research gathered from David Lilienthal and members of his Atomic Energy Commission. Banks also had a session with Oppenheimer, from which he came away reeling to insert the following sentence in his account: "Oppenheimer was up before 8 o'clock on Sunday for an 8:30 breakfast date with Dr. Louis Banks, bewildered, lowbrowed, short-haired representative of TIME...
Among the book ads in the New York Herald Tribune's weekly book section this week appeared a pertinent insert by a distilling company. After receiving hundreds of inquiries and orders pertaining to the Kinsey Report, which is published in Philadelphia, Philadelphia's Kinsey Distilling Corp. finally decided that it was time to set the record straight-and get its bit of publicity besides. Said...
Shopping at the Keedoozle is not as complicated as it sounds. Customers inspect the wares, each item in a separate glass-enclosed case, then insert a key in a slot under the items they wish to buy. Electric impulses cause perforations to be cut in ticker tape attached to the face of the keys. The customers take the tape to the cashier, who inserts it in a translator machine. That sets off more electric impulses which not only start the goods sliding down a conveyor belt, but at the same time add up the bill...
...Manhattan bar & grill, 20-year-old Josephine Ostoloco, who had been playing Civilization ("Bongo, Bongo, Bongo") for an hour on the jukebox, started to insert another quarter. Filipe Torres, 30, protested. Miss Ostoloco persisted. Torres shot her twice and fled...