Word: mohawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drums Along the Mohawk (20th Century-Fox) continues Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck's probings into the rise of U. S. civilization as exemplified by In Old Chicago, Young Mr. Lincoln. The current example is notable chiefly for its running time (one hour and 43 minutes), a non-stop foot race between Henry Fonda and three pursuing Indians apparently down the entire length of Mohawk Valley, and the dogged persistence with which early American settlers plant wheat every spring for the Indians to burn every autumn. Since one burning wheat field looks much like another burning wheat field, this seasonal...
Last week, for a second time since September1, U. S. carpet prices were raised-a total increase of 10% since World War II began. Big carpet makers, like Bigelow-Sanford, Mohawk Carpet Mills, Alexander Smith Co., wondered where next year's carpet wool was coming from. War and embargoes had wiped out some 75% of the carpet wool supply. Meanwhile, after a deficit year in 1938 (Bigelow-Sanford lost $1,491,000, Mohawk $1,486,000), they stood to make a handsome inventory profit...
...British Admiralty and Air Ministry admitted casualties aboard the 9,100-ton Southampton, the cruiser Edinburgh and the destroyer Mohawk, and said an admiral's barge and a light tender were sunk by the Nazi bombs...
Twentieth Century-Fox's ebullient Darryl Zanuck characteristically promised "at least five" $2,000,000 pictures: The Rains Came, with Tyrone Power, Myrna Loy, George Brent; Stanley and Livingstone; Little Old New York with Alice Faye; Brigham Young; Drums Along the Mohawk. Shirley Temple will do Lady Jane in Technicolor...
...Massachusetts, Pittsfield is the best skiing spot, according to the latest reports. The Berkshire "Mohawk" leaves daily at 7.55 o'clock. arriving at 11.52 o'clock. The daily Albany-Boston express can be used for the return trip. Brookline, New Hampshire, a four hour drive from Boston, reports good conditions. A ski two is running...