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Show Brothers Attend Furniture Mart S- Morgan Sorensen, sales manager, and J. Gordon Sorensen, Soren-sen, assistant sales manager, left Christmas day to represent the Southeast Furniture company at the annual winter furniture market and display in Chicago. During their two-weeks' stay they will make several plane trips to Qrand Rapids and other oth-er eastern furniture centers to gain first-hand information on the merchandising situation and to place orders for the store. Following their return, Horace Hor-ace A. Sorensen, general manager, man-ager, will leave for the west coast to attend the big western furniture markets to be held the last week in January and first week in February in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Mr. Sorensen said Wednesday the Airniture outlook is not too bright at present, sO far as big increases are concerned, but that the old reliable manufacturing manufac-turing firms are maintaining their quality and supplying the need of their established retail re-tail connections so far as possible. pos-sible. He said it appeared that stores would continue to operate oper-ate indefinitely on the allotment system base on their 1941-12 purchases. |