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...Mark's Roman Catholic Church at Burlington, Vt., a gleaming structure of glass blocks and red brick produced by local architects who were chosen because they had never designed a Catholic church before, is strictly 20th Century. But it has one primitive feature that has rarely been seen in Christian churches since the 9th Century. Its altar is set in the center of the church (see cut), so that the face and hands of the priest offering Mass are visible to his congregation from three sides. The altar of the new cathedral to be built in Britain...
...Fred Gurley is as used to trouble as a railroad man can be. He started at the bottom; his first job (1906) was as a clerk in the superintendent's office on the Burlington, at Sheridan, Wyo. Gurley stayed with the Burlington for 33 years, moving up through the operating department to become assistant vice president in 1936; he was a prime mover in Burlington's pioneer work with streamlined diesel trains...
...Born in Burlington, Vermont, Fay graduated form Harvard at the age of 21. He went into business and became head of he Remington-Sholes typewriter manufacturing company, one of the pioneer companies in America to turn out these machines. He was also president of the Chicago utilities companies. Besides writing several volumes on business and finance, Fay was a music lover and an ardent patron of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when it was directed by Theodore Thomas. The last few years of his life were spent in Cambridge as a resident of Harvard Faculty Club...
...declare war on the Axis-nine weeks before Pearl Harbor, Vermont began paying soldier bonuses because the U.S. was "already in a shooting war." In the green hills where Ethan Allen's Green Mountain boys trod, lean, lank Vermonters turn out landing craft and gun-mounts in Burlington, aircraft ignition parts in Vergennes. The Massachusetts shoreline is one long row of shipyards and shipways, with convoys loading up. Its yards and plants produce everything from the $60 million aircraft carrier Lexington to G.I. shoelaces...
...Railroads. Compared with other U.S. industries, the railroads have had the Midas touch in the last two years. On the surface, the first half of 1943 was no exception: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific jumped its net from $2,378,000 in 1942 to $17,134,000; the Burlington went from $7,081,000 to $18,125,000; Lehigh Valley from $1,284,000 to $3,129,000. But there were a few nicks in the golden record: Erie, for example, made only $5,602,000 in the first half of this year, down nearly 10% from last year...