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...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...
...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...