When the Deco craze swept the city in the 1930s, the style became so popular that the furniture was mass-produced and offered for sale in the city's fancy Nanjing Road department stores, says Wm.

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Jaspreet Singh Goomer, a 22-year-old accounting student, drove an hour and a half on Saturday from western Delhi to a Home Centre store on the city's eastern outskirts to buy furniture for his family's new house.

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The attractions, as well as retailers such as Nebraska Furniture Mart that are located near but not in the mall, have enabled Kansas City to compete for tourists' dollars with its larger neighbor Kansas City, Mo.

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