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...first glance, the casket business would seem depression-proof. Yet a shrewd investor would realize that since the price range of caskets swings from less than $100 to many thousands, bad years will result in smaller gross sales, smaller profits. When last week National Casket Co. reported profits of $925,000 for the year ended June 30 against $1,518,000 in the previous year, President Philip B. Heinz commented on this fact. But he also suggested an economic relationship which would occur only to the hypersuspicious investor. "Nature would also seem to play some part in it," said...
...Francisco's Children's Hospital has only one Drinker Respirator, its staff last week was obliged to make a character-testing decision. The Drinker Respirator, invented by Dr. Philip Drinker of the Harvard School of Public Health, is a mechanical aid to breathing. It is a large casket into which the body of a patient with respiratory paralysis can be inserted. His head extends into the open air. A motor creates a vacuum in the respirator causing the chest to expand. Consequently stimulating oxygen and carbon dioxide may be sucked into the patient's lungs. When...
President Hoover ordered guns at all U. S. Army posts throughout the world to boom out every half-hour for a full day, to fire a 48-pound salute at sundown. Members of the Supreme Court prepared to follow the casket as the honorary pallbearers. Congress adjourned. Washington was enveloped in mourning. ¶. It took President Hoover's Haiti Commission less than a week of investigating at Port-au-Prince to forward its first and most important recommendation to the White House. The recommendation: Selection of a temporary neutral President to succeed Louis Borno, to be followed...
...Quality of Mercy" in an attitude which suggested that she was trying to count the seats in the extreme rear of the balcony. Although the role of the Merchant was dwarfed more than usual, John Burke made the best of the opportunities offered him, particularly in the trial. The Casket scene was as effective...
...Other U. S. institutes and associations are many, include: American Macaroni Manufacturers' Association, American Shovel Institute, Ash Handle Association. Association of Limb Manufacturers of America, Better Bedding Alliance of America, Canadian Newsprint Association (see p. 19), Casket Manufacturers' Association of America, Copper Institute, Corset and Brassiere Association of America...