The Exhibition Hall of Chicago's Hotel Stevens was jampacked last week with $1,000,000 of gravestones. Around & around the Hall walked dozens of joking, back-slapping businessmen who eyed each granite block with official pride. They tramped into a private dining room, sat down to a banquet at which no one made a speech. For five days they haggled over code chiselers, discussed new ideas on designs, talked about cashing in on their backlog. Gravestone sellers all, members of the Memorial Craftsmen of America, they wound up their...
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