Word: libbey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the housing boom was past its peak, the building industry showed some outstanding performers. Johns-Manville Corp. boosted its net 24.9% (from $2.3 million to $2.8), Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. 23.4% (from $3.1 million to $3.8), and Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. 17%. Small Pennsylvania-Dixie Cement Corp. showed a 171% rise...
...Board Bonanza. But the majority of the reports showed rises, many of them of whopping size over strike-ridden 1946. In steel, Republic led with a nine-month net of $23,111,631, up 143% over the same period last year. Other big gainers were Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. (up 234% to a nine-month net of $8,727,826), Burroughs Adding Machine Co. (up 367% to $4,403,050), Container Corp. of America...
...cities and seven states some 16,000 workers trooped back into the Libbey-Owens and Pittsburgh Plate Glass plants, ended a strike which had tied up an estimated 75% of the nation's flat glass production since Oct. 22. The basis of settlement: a 10.7? an hour pay increase retroactive to Oct. 2: a contract guaranteeing new wage talks on 20 days' notice by the union...
...prefabricated glass kitchen (by Libbey-Owens-Ford) with glass oven, refrigerator, cabinets...
...This was due partially to Plaskon Co. which became a Libbey-Owens division in April...