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Show . Furniture Output Not Yet Normal Due to the problems of reconversion recon-version and shortages of labor and materials particularly hardwoods and fabrics U. will be at least six months before the furniture situation returns to anything like normal, in the opinion of R. W. Madsen Jr., president of the Sterling Furniture Furni-ture company who returned this week from the annual furniture market in' Chicago. Mr. Madsen was accompanied on the trip by Dewey L. Peterson, Peter-son, Sterling's manager, Francis Fran-cis A. Madsen of the Sterling in Ogden and James M. Armstrong Arm-strong of the Standard Furniture Furni-ture in Salt Lake. The furniture that is being produced in limited quantity is for the most .part of pre-war quality and the old line manufacturers manu-facturers are maintaining their high standards of production, Mr. Madsen said. lie noted a style trend toward streamline design and an increased use of plastics and glass and some new development in fabric manufacture, manufac-ture, but observed that the standardized stan-dardized period designs are still in greatest demand. Mr. Madsen recalled that he has been attending the Chicago Chica-go show almost every year since he was a mere infant, and that many of the firms w-ith which he placed orders are the same concerns with which bis grandfather grand-father and father have done business since 1S75. |