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...Disillusioned. From Gordon and Barnet the committee turned to a more cooperative witness, Charles S. Lewis, now news director of WCAX radio and TV stations in Burlington, Vt. Lewis freely admitted that he had been a Communist for "several" months in 1937, said he joined while at the Eagle after Newspaper Guild organizers convinced him that "as an active member of the Guild, I should be a member of the Communist Party, which . . . was making the actual decisions in the Guild." He broke with the party during a 1937 strike at the Eagle, he said, because he was asked...
Herman D. Ruhm Jr., 53, resigned after ten years as president of Bates Manufacturing Co., of Lewiston, Me., to become president of Burlington Industries Inc. Ruhm, who was on the losing side in the recent proxy fight for control of Bates that was won by Consolidated Textiles' Lester Martin, graduated from Yale ('23), got his first job in a Nevada mine, leaving after a year to work for Standard Oil (N.J.). He entered textiles in 1928 with Associated Dry Goods, moved to Bates in 1937, will serve as deputy to Burlington's board chairman, Spencer Love...
...when Edward J. Engel, a Santa Fe veteran of 40 years, became president, he brought in, as executive vice president and heir apparent, young Fred Gurley, who started railroading at 17 as a Burlington clerk, made a name for himself as a diesel man. Engel had the vision to see how dieselization (with Gurley bossing the job) could give the Santa Fe greater speed, lower operating costs...
...little guy is running out of soil and money," warned Conservationist Smith. In Burlington, Colo. Banker Leland Reinecker reported "Most of the farmers lost money last year. Another year of drought will be disastrous." But this time no swarming migration from the dust bowl has developed; most farmers are gritting the dust between their teeth, grimly plowing their land deep with soil-saving techniques and praying for rain...
...BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, already the biggest U.S. textile firm, is flexing its muscles again. Having spent $33 million last year buying up competing Pacific Mills and Goodall-Sanford (TIME, July 26), Burlington has now wrapped up a deal to take over North Carolina's $12 million Mooresville Mills, makers of cotton and rayon towels, draperies and sports clothes...