Business & Finance: Novelty Suit

A profitable, privately-owned $10,000,000 corporation is Chicago's Mills Novelty Co., world's biggest maker of slot machines. Owned and managed by four Brothers Mills, who are not to be confused with the Four Mills Brothers of Radio, the company has no connection with the $150,000,000 slot machine racket except that it makes the machines. So far as the Brothers Mills know, their notorious product is simply used as a "trade stimulator" or for amusement. Indeed, many a slot machine goes into the mansions of fun-loving financiers. Mills insists that there are several slot machines...

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