Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, father of four Moscowitzes, glared indignantly from his bench as he heard a chemist's report on the contents of Bonomo's candy: "rodents' hairs, rodent excreta, larvae, fragments of human hair, bits of paper, bits of mouse pelts and fragments of glass." Sample pieces contained as high as 205 insect fragments, 204 mouse hairs. The Moscowitz sentence: $600 fine (legal maximum) and three years on probation for the filth purveyor...
There are but two modern ways of mass-producing glass containers, the "suction" and the "gob" processes. Patents to machinery for the former are held by Owens-Illinois Glass Co., for the latter by the Hartford-Empire Co. Last year 67.4% of all glass containers in the U. S. were made under Hartford-Empire licenses, 29.2% under Owens-Illinois, leaving but 3.4% for independents. Owens-Illinois is a manufacturer, largest of its kind in the world, but Hartford-Empire makes nothing, merely licenses its patents or rents machinery. In 1924, 1932 and 1935 it formed cross-licensing agreements with Owens...
...soft-spoken New Englander of 57, President Smith is a self-made man who became general manager of Hartford-Empire's predecessor, Hartford-Fairmont Co., in 1915. He owns only a small block of stock in Hartford-Empire; most of it belongs to the Houghton family (Corning Glass Co.) and Beech-Nut Packing Co. Beech-Nut created the company in 1912 while looking for a good glass jar machine...
Though Mr. Smith's firm received a 67.77% return on its $2,500,000 net capital employed in 1937 operations, and though Mr. Smith admitted that it was virtually impossible for anyone to make glass bottles by the gob process without "coming to Hartford," he got in a retort, too. Chairman O'Mahoney observed, "that is a sort of AAA in milk bottles," and Witness Smith cracked back: "Not so far from it, but used intelligently...
...possibilities of patent monopoly. Chairman Joseph O'Mahoney and his conferees chose first to hear from the automobile industry, probably the most beneficent of all patent users. This astute stage-managing will make all the more pointed the conclusions from this week's quizzing of the glass industry, which the committee considers a bird of just the opposite color...