Word: libbey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home of the oldest music festival in the U. S., opened a new art museum last week, the Toledo Museum of Art turned the tables by opening a 1,500-seat concert hall in one of its new wings, gift of the late Ohio bottle maker Edward Drummond Libbey. That too was an occasion. Curly-haired Leopold Stokowski and his Philadelphia Symphony traveled out for the opening concert. Grandiloquently entitled The Peristyle, the new concert hall is built like a Greek outdoor theatre with sharply sloping banks of seats around the arena and a pillared colonnade at the back. Borrowing...
...affiliated with the du Pont interests. Although the merged companies will control more than half of the industry's capacity, they will not lack formidable competition Much of it will come from powerful-privately-held Michigan Alkali Co., a rich concern belonging chiefly to John Ford of Detroit (Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.) and making its solid CO 2 under Belgian Patents...
Five years ago Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd. of Great Britain organized an affiliate in the U. S. Last week the U. S. company planned to sell its patent rights, also most of its assets, to Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. for L-O-F stock worth about $170,000 plus $25,000 cash to pay for liquidation, plus an unstated sum for some of the Triplex inventory. The large Triplex plant at Clifton, N. J., will be resold to Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. which will be given manufacturing licenses, will share Triplex's big Ford windshield contract with...
Another recent Libbey-Owens-Ford buy was the glass division of General Motors, resulting in Libbey-Owens-Ford getting a seven-year G-M contract (TIME, June...