Word: mohawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because it was not merely a shipwreck but the culmination of a series of disasters to Ward Line ships, the sinking of the Mohawk last week left the country aghast. Only five months ago the Morro Castle, her captain mysteriously dead, caught fire and burned with a loss of 124 lives (TIME, Sept. 17). Last week she was still beached off Asbury Park. N. J. Last month off Florida the Havana for no good reason went aground 20 miles off her course (TIME, Jan. 14). That a third major disaster should befall the Ward Line last week was regarded...
...seemed no less incredible to the Mohawk's surviving officers. Chief Officer Pedersen, who had been below when the vessels struck, told a Federal Steamboat Inspection Board in Manhattan: "I've been thinking and thinking and thinking, and I can't explain...
Conflicting testimony was offered as to whether the Mohawk's automatic steering mechanism had failed. Chief Officer Pedersen said Captain Wood told him it had. Chief Engineer Martin said this was news to him. Quartermaster Mardy Polander said that not only had the wheel been "tough to handle," but that 20 minutes before the collision "it was impossible to keep the Mohawk on her course." Against this Deck Engineer Snyder reported he had tested the steering mechanism ten minutes before the crash, and again after it, that on both occasions he found it "a little stiff, but all right...
...afternoon last month behind the New York Central's westbound Commodore Vanderbilt. Forward in the servants' room were the cook, the waiter and a porter who once polished up the handles on Henry Ford's private car. In the five master bedrooms as the train was speeding through the Mohawk Valley, a number of notable people were getting into their silk brocaded pajamas for the night. One was Winthrop Williams Aldrich, chairman of the biggest bank in the U. S. Another was the bank's president, Henry Donald Campbell. A third was the bank's brilliant economist, Benjamin M. Anderson...
...schedule from Chicago to New York. Loafing along at 60 m.p.h., it sprinted just once, between Buffalo and Batavia, to touch 112.5 m.p.h. and thereby equal the 41-year-old record of famed Engine No. 999, hauling the Empire State Express. M10001 cruised at half-throttle through the misty Mohawk Valley, stepped lightly down along the Hudson River to Mott Haven, where it stopped. From that point on it was ignominiously towed into New York by a black, stumpy little electric locomotive; a state law forbids Diesel-powered engines from using the city tunnels. At Grand Central Terminal M10001...