Word: mohawk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting sick & tired of the indignities directed their way. The name was not quite as bad as Dogpatch or Skunk Hollow, but it was not even granted the same recognition. When Mahwah appeared on envelopes, mail sorters sighed patiently, made a correction and directed the letter to Rahway or Mohawk. Last week the aroused businessmen of Mahwah took a quarter-page advertisement in the New York Times to set people straight about their town...
...threw a crowd-catching sale of summer furniture-and put thousands of Easter hats on the counters at $5 and up. In San Francisco, the City of Paris store slashed prices a third to a half on $160,000 worth of draperies. Four big carpetmakers (Bigelow-Sanford, Alexander Smith, Mohawk and James Lees & Sons) cut prices from 10% to 20%. Thanks to such measures and a burst of fair weather and Easter buying, department store sales for the week ending April 2 were 8% above last year's. But the gain was too small to cause much cheering...
Manhattan's Mohawk Business Machines Corp. last week unveiled a new wire recorder, the "Tele-Magnet," which will answer the telephone when no one is home. As Mohawk's President George F. Ryan explained it, when he leaves the house (or office), the gadget's owner puts his cradle-type telephone on the machine. When the phone rings, a mechanism lifts the receiver and turns on a phonograph record. The owner's own recorded voice announces that he is out, asks the caller to leave his message at the sound of a chime. When the owner...
...Cornwall Mohawk--11-15, breakable. Fair to good...
...GARRETT C. ROORDA Mohawk...