VENDING, AMUSEMENT, AND OTHER COIN-OPERATED MACHINES [A preliminary report for this industry was issued December 6, 1940] Description of the industry. This industry embraces establishments primarily engaged in the manufacture of all coin-operated mechanisms and complete coinoperated vending and amusement machines, except complete coin-operated phonographs, which are included in the "Radios, radio tubes, and phonographs" industry. CENSUS YEAR Establishments assigned to this industry were formerly included in the "Machinery not elsewhere classified" industry but were given a separate classification for the first time at the census for 1939. The figures for 1937 in these tables have been adjusted for comparison with those for 1939; there are no available figures for earlier years. 2 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Wage earners and wages. 3 Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture. No comparable figures for years prior to 1937. Not called for on schedule. 1 Iowa, 1 establishment; Massachusetts, 1; Michigan, 3; Minnesota, 1; Missouri, 4; New Jersey, 1; Pennsylvania, 1; Wisconsin, 2. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Definition of establishment. Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, containers, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture. VENDING, AMUSEMENT, AND OTHER COIN-OPERATED MACHINES TABLE 3.-VALUE OF PRODUCTS FOR THE UNITED STATES: 1939 AND 1937 TABLE 4.-PRODUCTS, BY KIND, NUMBER, AND VALUE, FOR THE UNITED STATES: 1939 AND 1937 PRODUCT Vending, amusement, and other coin-operated machines, and parts and attachments, total value..... 505 1 Gambling and other coin-operated amusement devices, combined to avoid disclosing, exactly or approximately, data for individual establishments. $50, 297 TABLE 5.-WAGE EARNERS ENGAGED IN MANUFACTURING, BY MONTHS, FOR THE UNITED STATES, 1939 AND 1937, AND BY STATES, 1939 1 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Definition of establishment. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Wage earners and wages. Figures for years prior to 1935 do not include cost of contract work. 4 Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture. Not called for on schedule. Data not available. 1 California, 2 establishments; Colorado, 1: Connecticut, 1; District of Columbia, 1; Indiana, 1; Kentucky, 1; Michigan, 2; Missouri, 1; Oklahoma, 1; Utah, 1; Vermont, 2 Washington, 1; Wisconsin, 1. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Definition of establishment. 3 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Persons engaged-general classification. 4 See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Wage earners and wages. Value of products less cost of materials, supplies, containers, fuel, purchased electric energy, and contract work. See GENERAL EXPLANATIONS-Value added by manufacture. |