Word: harbison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consistent with our appropriations, we could use approximately the same quantity of column inches which was devoted to a description of the Harbison-Walker Refractories Co.'s plant in TIME...
...Valentines, N. J., own clay beds; mine, grind and mix various ingredients; press, slice into blocks, dried by air and warm draft; have a full yard of dirty red igloo-like kilns and, in short, practically all of the other things referred to in the description of the Harbison-Walker plant...
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...
...Harbison-Walker in shaping their bricks squeeze their clay or ganister mixture into a long greyish bar which, as it crawls out the mold, resembles a creeping crocodile. A slicer armed with steel wires cuts the firm bar into separate bricks just as a string cuts a bar of Ivory soap...
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...