Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brick masons at East Chicago, Ind., slashed at mortar with their trowels last week, plumped bricks down to form the stringer courses of a 500-foot surface tunnel; pipe fitters twirled threads onto gas lines with their tap-&-die threader; freight gondolas dumped clay and ganister-Harbison-Walker, $36,000,000 brickmaking corporation, was having constructed a new type of kiln to burn silica brick. Corporation President J. E. Lewis had heard of the kiln operating at Dusseldorf, Germany, and after a talk with his Board Chairman H. W. Croft in their Pittsburgh offices had hurried to Dusseldorf...
Those raw bricks are to be placed on small cars and slowly passed through the 500-foot tunnel kiln which Harbison-Walker's President Lewis is having built at East Chicago. In passage they will endure a heat of 2,700° Fahrenheit. (Temperature of boiling water is 212° F.) Spoilage of bricks is expected to be trivial...
Wilcox went on to say "We were not so much interested in the Harvard game. We came over east to test our attack and give it a few finishing touches by playing a strong team, but the attack itself is intended for the Big Ten Conference. Our league is in the West...
...first time. What will be the results of that game are uncertain except in the minds of the Boilermakers: But, let it be said every man on the team that will attempt to efface the Crimson of "dear old Harvard" will do his level best to let the East know that somewhere in a hamlet in the Middle West is located a school called Purdue...
...East heard us last year, and we hope that Saturday they will hear us ROAR. The Purdue Exponent...