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...holders are John Lusty (turtle soup), Ashton & Mitchell, Ltd. (theatre tickets), Mary A. Bennett (stable brooms), R. G. Lawrie, Ltd. (bagpipes) and Merryweather & Sons, Ltd. (fire engines). Cars His Majesty buys from The Daimler Co., Ltd., rents additional cars from Daimler Hire, Ltd., sells old equipages to The Car Mart, Ltd.-all three motor firms holding royal warrants. Less candid are Their Majesties' little extravagances and their sale of whatnots. Thus Her Majesty probably spends more pounds buying Imperial Russian enamel and ikons from Wartski & Co. on Regent Street than on any other self-indulgence. But the fawning Messrs...
...East of the Mississippi, from Alabama to Canada, airports announced "Zero-zero" weather, and air transport stood stock-still. For three days not a plane reached or left the world's busiest port at Newark. In Chicago a lost, invisible plane thrummed round & round the 30-story Furniture Mart for hours. In Alabama Lieut. James L. Majors, U. S. A., tried to land in a fog-wrapped field, crashed, died...
Like the Toy Fair in Manhattan, the Furniture Mart is for manufacturers and buyers only. Spectators may not attend without passes. The Chicago mart is not the only furniture exhibit but it is the most important. A competing show at Marshall Field & Co.'s huge Merchandise Mart housed 53 exhibitors and Manhattan's show which closed a fortnight ago was a huge success with 406. The Furniture Mart opened with 600. There the big retail stores select suites (pronounced "suits" by most of the trade) for display in the autumn, when the public does most of its furniture...
Biggest exhibitor at the Chicago Mart is also the titular head of U. S. furniture companies. Kroehler Manufacturing Co. of Naperville, Ill. claims the distinction of being the world's largest maker of upholstered furniture. Grey-haired, pock-marked Peter who always attends every show in person, was a $27-a-month bookkeeper when he started to work with a lounge company in Naperville. He bought the lounge company, built up a furniture corporation which in 1929 did $20,000,000 worth of business. His customers today include such heavy buyers as Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward...
Grand Rapids' most famed furniture man, Robert W. Irwin, chairman of the Furniture Code Authority and president of Robert W. Irwin Co., had no exhibits at the Chicago Mart. Buyers could roam its 16 floors without seeing a single stick of Grand Rapids furniture. Grand Rapids held a show of its own last week sponsored by an association of which Mr. Irwin was president for ten years. In recent years Chicago has surpassed Grand Rapids as a distributing centre and manufacturer of upholstered furniture...