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...meat packers. The 300 that belong to I. A. M. P. do 90% of the total business of processing U. S. meat. The industry's annual sales volume is about $3,000,000,000. Last week's mobilisation started off with a luncheon in the Red Lacquer Room of Chicago's Palmer House for 457 such friends of the livestock and meat industry as Chairman William Bishop Warner of the National Association of Manufacturers, Hotelman Ralph Hitz, Railroader John Jeremiah Pelley, Editor Glenn Frank, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick. Convening from all over the nation, the 457 spent...
Gathered in the Red Lacquer Room of the Palmer House for a ceremonial banquet to Librarian Roden were the University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, Northwestern's President Walter Dill Scott, Episcopal Bishop George Craig Stewart, 250 other citizens. Librarian Roden bashfully received a volume of testimonial letters from 175 of his colleagues throughout the world. Said President Hutchins: "We have met tonight to honor one of the great educators of the Middle West. ... The Chicago Public Library was one of the first to realize its educational as distinguished from its storage functions...
...Kuehne started making his own picture frames because he could not afford to buy any. It was not long before he was making many of the frames for the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., the Whitney Museum in Manhattan. From frames he went in for furniture, later for lacquer screens...
...price-cut since the product was introduced in 1924. From $2.65 per lb. in 1924 the price had dropped to $1 per lb. in 1928, to 60? per lb. by the end of 1930, to 45? per lb. in 1931. Moisture-proof Cellophane is the ordinary product plus a lacquer coating on one side. It appeared in 1927 at $1.60 per lb., dropped to $1 by 1930, to 52? in 1934. It sold at 48? at the beginning...
Luncheon at Red Lacquer Room, Palmer House, Chicago, Thursday noon, December 26. John W. Valentine '29, Secretary, 115 West Monroe Street, Chicago...