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...climbed the trees to get a better view. At the cathedral's entrance, the limousines disgorged the auto city's great. From a maroon Lincoln limousine, Clara Bryant Ford stepped out, leaning on the arm of her grandson, Henry. Inside St. Paul's, in a sealed casket, lay the pinch-faced, fragile remains of her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Detroit Dynast | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Singly and in straggling little groups the faithful came to view the remains. Hinky Dink was dead, at 89. At Hursen's funeral Home on Chicago s South Michigan Avenue, under the glass cover of a $5,000 bronze casket, the Honorable Michael Kenna, symbol of the gaudiest era of Chicago's noisy and sinful past, was now a museum piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Museum Piece | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Last week a procession of 21 cars, including Dwight Eisenhower's command car, followed Ida Eisenhower's grey casket through Abilene's quiet streets to the end of an elderly lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: I Chose My Way | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Removals would not begin until some time next spring. Because of the steel shortage, U.S. casket-makers will be unable to meet the services' demand for seamless steel, hermetically sealed coffins until then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Endless Journey | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...produced this year; 2) several hundred consumer items of minor importance to the cost of living. Examples: fly swatters, locomotives, subway cars, flowerpots, turbines, soda fountains, dredges, cuff buttons, gaskets (a misprint in the Associated Press story touched off premature celebrations by U.S. casket makers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Hatchet Work | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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