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By 1920, Sealy had 28 licensed plants and was the first mattress company to expand using a licensing program. During the Great Depression the mattress industry was hit hard. Sealy lost most of its licensees and narrowly escaped bankruptcy itself. The company consolidated with the surviving licensees and created what is now known as Sealy ...
Their beds are sold through decorators, their factory showrooms at 26 W. 17th St., Manhattan and in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the internet, and through their mail order catalogs. Rogers's beds have also been used in popular culture appearing in movies such as The Devil's Advocate in 1997 and 88 Minutes in 2007 both starring Al Pacino.
Cover of Georgia Historical Quarterly, Volume CI, Number 1. The Georgia Historical Quarterly has been published by the society since 1917 and contains scholarly articles and book reviews on Georgia and Southern history. The journal received a Governor's Award in the Humanities in 1999. [1] Cover of Georgia History Today, Volume 11, Number 1
Bibb Manufacturing also took care of its employees' health. They operated six free clinics with nine doctors and eight nurses. In 1950, 15,000 employees used this free medical service. The nurses also would visit sick people in their homes. At the Porterdale plant, the company maintained a hospital with 20 beds. [14] Mill Village Houses ...
The pocketed coil is the basis for the Simmons Beautyrest mattress brand, which was introduced in 1925. [6] Although the new manufacturing technology greatly reduced its cost, at the time of its introduction a Beautyrest mattress sold for $39.50, three to four times more than the typical price for a standard wire mattress. [7]
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A mattress topper is a thin mattress, usually 5–10 centimetres (2–4 in) thick. [citation needed] Stand-alone mattresses of this size exist (see futon and Bed base#Floor beds; traditional European beds were made of a stack of mattresses of this size).
A pallet is a bed made of straw or hay, used in medieval times. Close to the ground, it was generally a linen or some other material sheet stretched over some hay or straw. The mattress might be called a palliasse, or sometimes pallet, based on the French word for straw: paille. The name palliasse applies particularly to a mattress used on its ...