Word: libbey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final Table, Pressure Groups ion a Democracy, Senator Sherman Minton of Ind.; E. B. Libbey, of the National Society for the Prevention of War; and Russell Davenport, Managing Editor of Fortune, and listed...
Thus with great fanfare was launched a new flexible safety glass, billed as the best ever. Five companies cooperated in the research which produced it-Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Monsanto Chemical, Libbey-Owens-Ford, Pittsburgh Plate Glass. Announced cost: $6,000.000. Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald, an old motormaker (Moons) but a notably inexpert motorist, made a speech. A congratulatory telegram arrived from Franklin Roosevelt...
...firm, now under the direction of sober Thomas J. Ross, still has the Rockefellers, the Pennsylvania Railroad, Chrysler Corp. and other industrial giants as clients. More spectacularly successful today are such younger rivals as Edward L. Bernays (Procter & Gamble, Allied Chemical & Dye), Carl Byoir (A. & P., Goodrich, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass), Steve Hannagan (Miami Beach, Union Pacific), Benjamin Sonnenberg (Texaco, Philip Morris, Remington Rand), Bernard Lichtenberg (Swift & Co., United Brewers Industrial Foundation...
Toledo's public-spirited John David Biggers last week resigned his job as administrator of the U. S. Unemployment Census, resumed his job as president of big Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. (flat glass). To his friend Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Biggers left many a fact & figure underlining the extent and the why of unemployment. In a letter announcing that the census was complete, he wrote: "The most significant fact ... is that 2,740,000 more persons have entered the labor market since 1930 than were to have been expected from past experience. This entire increase is made...
Biggest surprises revealed last week were Allied's possession of 10.4% of the voting strength of American Light & Traction Co. and big holdings of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co., Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. Allied gave no reason for any of these investments, but others noted that Allied buys much coke from Sloss-Shemeld, once sold much gas to American Light & Traction, was a heavy creditor of Virginia-Carolina Chemical when it went through reorganization, has large sales of chemicals to the two big glass makers...