Word: mohawk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company of strikers. He was Owen D. Young, retired lawyer and capitalist, former chairman of the board of General Electric Co., author of the Young Plan to reduce Germany's war reparations, onetime near-nominee for President of the U.S. Descendant of a long line of Mohawk Valley farmers, Owen D. (for nothing) Young is one of the biggest dairymen in New York State. His 2,000-acre farm at Van Hornesville, near Utica, produces some 33 cwt. of milk a day-which would be worth about $71 at the present average price...
...Beech-Nut's products and workers are likely to remain his chief interest. He tried to make Beech-Nut's home, Canajoharie in New York's Mohawk Valley, a model town without looking like it, gave it an art museum and a library, put boxes of flowers on the village's lampposts (an idea he picked up in Hungary). In the old days before the clatter-clang of modern machinery, he hired a pianist to relieve the workers' tedium. Last year, on top of above-average wages, the company set aside...
...consisting of two ships laden with motor transport, one ammunition ship, and two ships thought to be carrying troops, all protected by three Italian destroyers. The British swept in, slapped aside the flimsy protection, and sank the whole convoy forthwith. The British lost one destroyer, the 1,870-ton Mohawk, in the operation, but saved most of her crew...
...sponsors of the contest, the Mohawk Club of Cambridge, say they want "nothing but Harvard men" as judges, "because Harvard men have a nation-wide reputation in things of this sort...
Busy Producer Darryl F. Zanuck takes time out from the drum-thumping phases of U. S. history (as seen and heard in Drums Along the Mohawk) to do a long, lavish, Technicolored, cinema biography of U. S. Composer Stephen Foster. Foster, while drinking himself to death, turned out most of the best U. S. folk songs. In pictures about composers a vacant look, head noddings and rhythmic hand flourishes denote musical inspiration. With these appropriate symptoms Don Ameche, as Stephen Foster, is shown conceiving his songs. Al Jolson (Christy the minstrel man) sings them, manages to mar their simplicity with...