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• n  a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed

• A cross section of Green Sleep's Vimala mattress, layered for firmness.
• In a new home for the deaf at Gorlitz, Silesia, to warn the inmates of fire, every mattress was equipped with a shaker, electrically agitated.
• Orthopedic physicians often recommend that patients sleep on firm mattresses to alleviate low-back pain, but a study in last week's issue of the Lancet suggests that such advice is .

News & Articles

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• Memory Foam Mattress Review Guide Released by Mattress Inquirer
  Bed blog Mattress-Inquirer.com announces their latest guide, an introduction on how to find the best memory foam mattress review sources. (PRWeb June 15, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/best-memory-foam/mattress-review-sources/prweb10837712.htm
  June 15, 2013 - PRWeb
• Mattress Firm Participates in Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s National Call-In Day
  Mattress Firm, Inc., the nation’s largest specialty mattress retailer, today announced that it expects more than 500 company employees to participate in the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s National Call-In Day on June 18th.
  June 14, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Mattress Warehouse opens 150th store
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A locally based business just announced the opening of its 150th store. Mattress Warehouses landmark store is in Louisville, Ky. -- the hometown of Kim Knopf, the woman who founded the company 30 years ago. In 1983, Knopf opened he...
  June 14, 2013 - The Charleston Gazette

Quotes

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• Dean Lombardi in USA Today
  With his staff "bunkered down around the mattress" of his hotel room, Lombardi said Thursday he was busy fielding calls from as many as 20 teams, and weighing whether to trade the pick or use it on one of a solid corps of defense prospects...
• Francis Ford Coppola in Telegraph.co.uk
  Pacino is now "very rich, maybe because he never spends any money; he just puts it in his mattress," Coppola told GQ magazine.
• Albert Brooks in CNN
  So much so that when my wife and I bought a new mattress a number of years ago -- and I'm not proud of this -- but I think I knew more about mattresses than the guys at Sit 'n Sleep,Brooks said. "I went to a mattress store and in four...