The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-23
New forl Phone
Book Lists Odd
Customers


! Odd Facts Are tFnearihed
/ Rv SAUL PETIT
tFor Hal Bowel
NEW YORK R-Signs OF the
times and portents of TIE future
listed in the Manhattan phone
book:
We ~ POI campaign FOR q
"oFnan president its wear" said
spokesman for tire Woman for
President and or or Public Offices
Inc. We're Just row surveying
public reaction to tie idea.
The demand for flagpO,eS has
died down because of government
restrictions on buildings. accord
ing to TIE American Flagpo!e
Equipment Co., which is now max
ing ship booms.'
The Association for the PrOtec-
ton OF the Adirondacks assured us
the mountains are in good shape,
camps and hotels are being held
to a minimum and the association
has a powerful voice in Albany. "
Interest in metaphysics has
dropped since World War ii, as
indicated by the lower student reg
istration figures of the American
Foundation for Metaphysical Arts
and Sciences Inc.
Business is plainly lousy said
man at the Association of Adj
Unstable Shoulder Strap Manufac
turers, which has changed its name
to the Undergarment Accessories
Association.
Relations between our two coun-
tries are excellent, was the re-
assuring word of DR.. Frank
Stuerm, executive secretary of the
American Society for Friendship
With Switzerland, Inc.
The trend around the country
is toward greater use of governors
on revolving doors, according to
the Revolving Door Division of the
tnternationa. Steel Co. Fifteen rev
buttons per minute is about tops
With the regulators. Hotels and
banks set their governors at IL
rpm, busy department stores and
terminals at IA or Is.
About 1000 dentists around the
country now practice hypnosis on
patients so afraid of pain they
can't even take the anesthesia
needle, said the American Society
or the Advancement of HypnodOn-
tics.
Sixty per cent of the rabbits i'm
ported to this country are now
used in making felt hats. Beavers
are slipping in this market. And
didn't you know that coney is the
British word for rabbit and Coney
Island was so named because ii
was once infested with rabbits?"
asked an astOnished spokesman
for the American Rabbit and CO.
ney Dealers Association Inc.
More teen-agers are j getting
acne, said the American Institute
OF DermatetlcS Inc.
The demand is IN for coal
chutes, grab hooks and crowbars,
according to tpe pIa morn 4, .
Horseshoe Co., which hasn't made
anything for a horse in 40 years.
1.-THE year 1852 should be year
for political lands.ides," predicted
the Foundation for the Study of
Cycles. They couldn't say which
land would slide for whom. The
foundation studies all kinds of
cycles-business cycles, weather
cycles, cosmic cycles.
Business is good, said American
Fork Lift Rentals Inc. which buys
and sells used materials handling
equipment.
Robert G.. Morris of Brooklyn
said the American Committee for
the Defense of British Homes has
been defunct since the war and
why doesn't the phone company
forget it?
Membership is up at the Society
of Former Special Agents of the
Federal Bureau, of Investigation
IncS d sogai ;.srsaniza pohs Things
{ also are burning at the Soeiedad
Anonima Commercial Importadora
and Exportadora Rioplatense, the
, American Society for the Preserya.
tiou of Sacred, Patriotic and Oper-
attic Music, the Association of La
cedaemonians, and the Societe
! Franchise de BeratS RaSoues In,