Word: mohawks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glacial times, when the ice sheet still blocked the Mohawk and St. Lawrence valleys, there were two southerly outlets to the Great Lakes system, the present Wabash and Desplaines-Illinois valleys, both leading to the Mississippi. The latter ultimately robbed the former and a vast river, called Warren River after the engineer who traced its old scourway, carried the entire system's outlet. The Chicago canal follows that scourway, deepened but a few feet. There was, in the Warren River's day, a "Lake Chicago" spreading out over the present state of Michigan ; Huron, Erie and Ontario were a "Lake...
...Road. It is almost a century since a charter was granted on Feb. 28, 1826, to the Mohawk & Hudson Railway, to connect the Hudson River with Lake Erie. In 1831 the first train was sent between Albany and Schenectady. In the next few years, there was a huge demand by promoters for railroad charters. Gradually the Hudson-Lake Erie route was built, by seven independent companies. In 1853 these and three additional roads consolidated as "The New York Central Railroad...
...Smith, of Chicago, jumped at 2,000 feet with a parachute which failed to open. Entanglement in the landing gear of the plane checked his fall, but desperate attempts to climb into the cockpit were futile. The pilot with admirable presence of mind flew a few feet above the Mohawk River into which the parachutist jumped. But not knowing how to swim, he was rescued just in time from drowning - and probably gave no further exhibitions that...