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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blew, until he grew tired of blowing. In 1889 he stopped blowing, started thinking. Thirteen years of thought produced in 1902 the Owens Bottle Machine, as epochal in glass manufacture as the cotton gin was in the cotton industry. He patented his machine and, in partnership with Edward Drummond Libbey, started making bottles in a one-story frame building in Toledo, Ohio. Since they had patents on the only bottle-making machine in existence, they prospered. The Owens Bottle Co. of Toledo, has long been the largest bottle manufacturer in the world. Its absorption of the Illinois Glass Co. last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bottles & Cans | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Thus the Heavens fall about me; Bishops and TIME oppose each other, not on opinions but on facts. Be a reportorial Laura Jean Libbey and set me right. You see, my family are, have been, and probably will be Methodists though the next "Battle of the Century" be staged in the local pulpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...Libbey Glass Manufacturing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Alert Toledo | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...LESTER LIBBEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...Tech crew will also keep the same line-up which has already carried it to two notable victories. It is, bow, Libbey; 2, Greer; 3, Copeland; 4, Kaufman; 5, Peterson; 6, Eaton; 7, Nichols; Stroke, Valentine; cox, Dearle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPENING GUN FOR REGATTA STARTS 150-POUND RACE | 5/21/1926 | See Source »

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