Word: libbey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. of Toledo is a triple-threat firm on the technological front. Inventing, buying and licensing, it has diversified its flat-glass line into 14 types of product from curved ("invisible") show windows to "glastone" building bricks. But three-fifths of L-O-F's business is selling safety glass to the automobile industry, principally General Motors...
Among members of his staff: John David Diggers, president of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Knudsen's executive assistant...
...upping aircraft and aircraft-engine production to the still astronomical figure of 50,000 a year. Also promised to Commissioner Knudsen was authority to oversee and coordinate the letting of important contracts for Army-Navy equipment. For assistance, which he will sorely need, Mr. Knudsen last week drafted Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.'s able President John David Biggers, one of the few industrialists in whom Franklin Roosevelt has displayed confidence. Another recruit was handsome Publicityman Bob Horton, who duly introduced himself to Mr. Knudsen...
Birthdays. Brigadier General William Henry Bisbee, U. S. A., retired, 100, veteran of the Civil War, Sioux Indian campaigns, keen student of World War II, who received from the War Department the Order of the Purple Heart and from President Roosevelt a letter of felicitation; William Libbey Sexton, oldest living alumnus of Princeton University, 95; Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, onetime Kaiser of Germany. 81; James Clark McReynolds, senior Supreme Court Justice, 78; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President...
...solution he could silver a mirror in 57 seconds, instead of over half an hour. Better still, the solution could be blown on by an air gun. With his process, mirror-makers could throw away their pitchers and work on a high-speed assembly line. Few weeks ago big Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. bought Peacock Laboratories, lock, stock & barrel, announced that Chemist Peacock would stay on as president...