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automat

Snack bar where food is dispensed through coin-operated machines. Automats were popular in the USA in the 1930s. The first was opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1902; the last closed in New York in 1991.



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My favorite story here tells of the portly clarinetist Irving Fazola getting stuck in a chair at Horn & Hardart's Automat restaurant before an important concert.
The Benenson Family survived the Great Depression because of the company's lucrative lease with The Horn & Hardart automat at 31st and Broadway.
aureus strains were lysed with 30 [micro]g/mL lysostaphin, which was incubated for 10 min at 37[degrees]C, and DNA was extracted by using MagNA Pure LC automat (Roche, Mannheim, Germany), as recommended by the manufacturer.
 
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