Word: mohawk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presidents: "We never had more wind than we wanted and half the time we had hardly sufficient to shove us, but just the same it was a wonderful cruise and if we hadn't been racing it would have been perfect." Then little Pinta and Mohawk, big Guinevere and Zodiac, arrived at Santander. But no word had been heard from Azara, and little Rofa had been demolished in a squall (TIME, July...
...other small schooners in the race -Mohawk, Nina, Pinta - were nearing the coast of Spain, if the ocean was kind to them. Only Nina had been sighted, early in her voyage, by the Cunarder Aquitania (TIME, July 16). Elihu Root Jr., and Paul Hammond are in command of Nina. Their crew consists of eight young college graduates and undergraduates and a Norwegian cook. Said Mr. Root: "We rather expect to get wet. If the Nina runs into a storm, her crew will have salt water in their clothes, their food, their hair and their couch cushions...
...Guienerve was the largest. Atlantic had won the last ocean race in 1925. A radio from Elena said that she was sailing beam to beam with the Atlantic. Passengers on liners peered at the horizon hoping to see a sail full of wind and salty adventure. Four little schooners-Mohawk, Niña, Pinta, Rofa-had set out from New York to Spain, a week before. They were expected to reach Santander at about the same time as the big ones. Little Niña, impish, came within seeing distance of the Cunarder Aquitania...
...York Central Railroad owned two corporations serving several of those communities-the Mohawk Valley Co. (light, power, gas) and the New York State Railways. Operating in contingent districts is the Empire Power Co., and closely allied financially with Empire Power is President Ellis Laurimore Phillips of the Long Island Lighting...
Last week the deal was closed. New York Central received $41,000,000 cash, a vast and potent sum. The others set about creating a new company to hold Mohawk Valley, New York State Railways and Empire Power...