Rank reports Deluxe sale progress
Leisure conglomerate Rank said on Tuesday that profit for the year to Dec 31 would be down slightly, but it was progressing with talks to sell its Deluxe Film and Deluxe Media units.
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- In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
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