Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the late Indiana summer, 65-year-old Fletcher Chapel stood as firm as its surrounding maples and oaks-still a modest roadside church, but a strengthened landmark in the rural heartland of U.S. religion...
...church still owed $200 on its $2,700 worth of overhauling, but a $50 donation started off a collection that briskly raised enough to cover the debt and put an extra ?40 into the fund for an oil heater. Brother Robinson glowed. Finances were looking up and the young people were again taking an interest in church. Brother Gourley ran his eyes proudly over the chapel as the late afternoon sun flooded through its new windows. Said he: "We have great hopes...
...decade at Kansas City Bishop O'Hara has put up 30 churches in rural counties, 25 of which had never before had a Catholic church. He is now in the process of building a church in Hickory County-the only county in the diocese which is still without one. "There is not a single Catholic family in Hickory County," said Bishop O'Hara last week. "But." he added "there will...
Despite devaluation, pound notes this week could still be bought cheaper than the official $2.80 rate in New York's "free market." (The notes could not be used in commercial transactions, were chiefly useful to tourists who could take ?5 into Britain.) The notes, which had been selling at $2.90 before devaluation, were down to $2.60 to $2.70. However, the price gap was now so small that bankers thought Britain could clean up the supply of notes, if it wished, by removing the bars on taking them into Britain...
...Corp. for 16 Comets, and is hard after U.S. orders, promising delivery in 1952-53-No Hands. In spite of their lead, the British were by no means assured of victory. They have developed techniques before, only to fumble them at the administrative and production level. And there were still many jet plane problems to be licked before the planes were as practical as reciprocating engine types. They are inefficient at low speeds, e.g., when taking off and landing, and consume so much more gas than present commercial planes that they can not be "stacked" at crowded airports while waiting...