Word: slotted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Merrill, Wis., one John Aho sits in county-jail making birdhouses out of condemned slot-machines...
...Marquis of Winchester is chairman; the Austin Friars Trust, Ltd., Dundee Trust, and Oak Investment Corp., Ltd. Also under strictest Stock Exchange Committee investigation were Associated Automatic Machines Corp.; Drapery Trust; Retail Trade Corp.; Photomaton Parent Corp. and Far Eastern Photomaton Corp.-both companies operating coin-in-the-slot camera booths, unconnected financially with the U. S. exploiters of the same Photomaton machine...
...Francisco's tough district is south of the old cable slot on Market street...
...wide distribution of Cameo automatic talking vending machines throughout the United Kingdom, it was really from Dora that these subhuman salesmen sprung. For Dora's decree made many a public house, cafe and tobacconist close during certain afternoon hours and also close early at night. Ingenious, tradesmen put slot machines on their doors. Thus, while legally closed, they continued to dispense candy, chewing gum, cigarets, etc. Meanwhile the slot machines, at first an emergency measure, gained so strong a hold upon the British favor that their vogue is considered certain to continue even after Dora shall have been rendered...
...flying at the stalling angle with the automatic slots open one wing drops, the pilot raises the aileron on the opposite side. The aileron movement raises its interceptor to a vertical position. The interceptor interrupts the air flowing through the slot before it. Thus the wing gets no air lift on that side and it drops until it is level with the previously dropping wing on the other side of the fuselage. Thus does the pilot have a good opportunity to prevent a spin and to pull his plane out of its stall...