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...Country), Louisa M. Alcott.* Under the arrangement with the Atlantic Monthly Press, the Atlantic Monthly acts as a kind of Little, Brown scout. This has brought Little, Brown books like Mazo de la Roche's Jama novels (a practically interminable property), Walter D. Edmonds' Drums Along the Mohawk, etc., Nordhoff and Hall's Bounty trilogy. Last week this agreement was amplified and extended for 50 years-a gauge, the contractors observed, of their faith in the stability of the American future...
Curtiss-Wright took its old reliable P36 (the British Mohawk), arbitrarily gave its performance a figure of 100%, went on from there. Since the British have announced P-36's performance (323 m.p.h. at 15,100 feet, a service ceiling* of 32,800 feet), any schoolboy could figure what the new P-405 would...
...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...