Word: mohawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes that it might meet with the speedy approval of the organization and work begin by next year in order to have the bridge completed in time to take care of the increased traffic routed through Cambridge by the completion of the new Concord Turnpike connecting with the Mohawk trail...
First a newsreel cameraman had himself lowered from the top of the cliff. Then So-Lat-Dowanee, a Mohawk Indian "chief," came dangling down in full tribal regalia, and began making passes with a lariat. The deer plunged perilously back & forth on the ledge, sending small stones rattling down into the gorge. Chief So-Lat-Dowanee, who had been confident of succeeding where the white man had failed, was ignominiously hauled back. He announced that he would go into seclusion, write a poem about the deer...
...York's disturbance centred in the region of the fertile Mohawk Valley which winds eastward across the State. 200 mi. north of the city. By regulation of the State Milk Control Board created last winter by the Legislature, the dairy farmers in this as in other sections of the State are paid on a sliding scale of prices, depending upon whether the milk is to be used for drinking (4¾ per qt.) or to go into ice cream, cheese or butter (1½). Independent farmers, complaining that they received an average of only 2? per quart and irked...
...three weeks ago Tanker TN-78, bearing a cargo of molasses, sank in the Mohawk River near Little Falls, N. Y. Few days later the river began to grow white with the bellies of thousands of dead perch, dead carp, dead whitefish. The Conservation Department reported last week that the molasses had glued up the gills through which the perch, carp and whitefish breathed...
Wage increases were taking place all over the country. In Akron, where Newton Diehl Baker was trying to bring harmony to the embattled rubber industry, Goodyear, Firestone. General. Mohawk all announced 10% raises. Seiberling upped pay 5%. The Pittsburgh Coal Co. was paying 10% more to 8,000 workers. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., largest cotton textile manufacturer, announced a 15% raise at Manchester, N. H. Other textile mills at Dallas, Gadsden, Ala., Lawrence, Mass., Rockville, Conn, swung into line. Canning factories in Florida, a Philadelphia handbag maker, a Suffolk, Va., candy company, upped pay. Sears, Roebuck rescinded a 10% salary...