Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purdue football teams' nickname ("Boilermakers") this year has grim associations. Last September, the flame from a locker-room hotwater boiler ignited gasoline spilled by players using it to loosen bandages, burned Purdue Footballers Carl Dahlbeck and Tom McGannon to death. In the Memorial Stadium at Minneapolis last week, the memorial planned by Purdue-a conference championship-was shattered by Minnesota...
...Moose Director General James John Davis, long-time (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, and now Senator from Pennsylvania, recalled that Muncie's George Alexander Ball, millionaire fruit jar manufacturer, had 40 years ago let a "young, broke and discouraged'' jobseeker sleep on straw beside a warm boiler. To Muncie's Ball, Moose Davis proffered 25 cents for his night's lodging...
After three more spins of the wheel steam hissed from the boiler, and the emblems began to twirl slowly. After that the smile did not vanish from Mr Ford's face except when a photographer dropped his flash bulb, scattering magnesium foil across the immaculate floor...
...jails. But if you remember that you are watching lowly-born moderns struggling through today's sea of sorrows, while Mr. Chaplin is doing his level best to scatter your attention over a vast series of ingenious gags, you can also study the differential calculus in the proverbial boiler-factory...
Rounding a curve just before taking a bridge across the Susquehanna River the six-car train had come to a broken rail, careened through the guard rail, spilled sideways across an abandoned canal bed, finally halted with the engine half submerged in the icy river. As the locomotive boiler exploded, the ties on the roadbed burst into flame from friction...