In ancient Alexandria, visitors to temples didn't have to pay for the holy water they wanted
had a choice of buying either holy or ordinary water
weren't allowed to enter without paying a bit of money
could buy holy water without having to talk to any sellers
were required to buy holy water before going into the temple
It's mentioned in the passage that the first automatic machines for selling tobacco let people decide what a fair price should be
made it very easy for people to pay for the product
relied on the general honesty of the customers
had special devices to prevent theft
were only allowed to be used by honourable people
When the modern cigarette machines were first introduced, they were different from other machines selling products in that they were able to accept paper money and weren't limited to taking coins
the customer didn't have to have the exact amount of money to buy from them
customers could pay in money from other countries, not just the currency of that country
they were found in train stations and also sold chewing gum to people who wanted it
it was much easier to use them, as they were more practical than the ones selling gum
69 THE BIRTH OF ROCK AND ROLL A record producer who had been searching for a "white man with the Negro sound and the Negro feel" began recording the Memphis-based country singer Elvis Presley. In 1956 the 21-year-old Presley created a sensation with his rock 'n' roll- styled "Heartbreak Hotel", the first of his 14 records in a row that sold more than a million copies each. Presley's success inspired other country performers to begin singing rock and roll music in the late 1950s. The popularity of Presley also helped to encourage the practice of "cover" recordings. That is, when new records by black performers began to appear on the hit charts, white singers would record simplified versions of the same songs. The recordings by the white performers received wider distribution and were played on more radio stations than the original recordings. As rock and roll rapidly became the most popular music of the late 1950s, record industry executives became aware that young listeners made up the largest portion of this music's audience. Therefore they employed young, often adolescent, singers to record rock and roll music, and produced such teenage romance songs as "Young Love", "16 Candles", and "Teen-Age Crush".