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Dairy in the Round. This week, over the Fourth of July, thousands of Americans will visit the two remaining active Shaker communities-near Portland, Me., and Canterbury, N.H.-as well as others in Pleasant Hill, Ky., Old Chatham, N.Y., and Hancock, Mass., where original Shaker buildings have been converted into museums. There they can buy Shaker jams, inspect Shaker houses, recapture a whiff of that eternal Shaker afternoon...
...restored village at Hancock, Mass., is currently the most fascinating of all the communities. In Tune, it opened its giant Round Stone Barn. Built in 1825, the barn was widely cited during the 1880s as "machinelike in its efficiency" and "a model for the soundest dairying practices." Settlers on the Great Plains dotted the Western frontier with timber versions of it-most of which have now rotted away. By the time the Hancock village was taken over by the Berkshires' Shaker Community, Inc. in 1960, huge cracks had appeared in the Shaker barn's walls and the interior...
...during World War II, industry is compensating for the shortage of men by hiring women, including housewives who seek part-time jobs. Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. offers 25-hour work weeks within which keypunch operators can almost select their own hours. St. Alexius Hospital in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village has set up a nursery where working mothers can leave preschool children during...
Because the Coop itself is in debt, it cannot be of very much direct monetary aid to the community. "To expand, the Coop had to borrow from local banks and the John Hancock Company. The terms of those loans expressly forbid us to invest in any other businesses," Brown explains. The Coop can, however, give about $5000 to charity each year, which it donates through the United Appeal...
...Williams and in part by an unidentified private individual, who bought stock in the venture. To set up the electronics plant, Freedom Industries borowed $35,000 from the Economic Development Administration under the Department of Commerce. Freedom Industries bought the two supermarkets with a mortgage commitment from John Hancock Life Insurance and financing from the Episcopal Church...