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...Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass...
Riggers' Figures. First step in solving any problem is to find out what the problem is. Last autumn, Franklin Roosevelt appointed President John D. Biggers of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. to make the first census of U. S. unemployment. Mr. Biggers went to work at $1 a year, with a $5,000,000 appropriation and the aid of the Post Office Department. Last November, 81,000,000 unemployment blanks were distributed by letter-carriers to 32,000,000 U. S. homes. As the returns came in, a separate door-to-door census checked them in 1,864 areas...
...Washington, Administrator John David Biggers sent out the first batch of his 85,000,000 unemployment census report cards. In Toledo, Mr. Diggers' Libbey-Owens-Ford announced plans to close down four of its plants (Reason: oversupply of glass), turning 900 workers into 900 unemployed...
...weeks' report); American Light & Traction from $5,368,893 to $5,919,580; Westinghouse Air Brake from $1,153,091 to $1,846,833; Electric Bond & Share from $2,431,460 to $2.571,601; American Chicle from $831.281 to $1,022,665; Libbey-Owens-Ford up from $2,266,988 to $3,216,690. For the first nine months Libbey-Owens was nearly $1,500,000 above last year's $7,369,960. An old market standby, American Telephone & Telegraph reported that in the fiscal year ending Aug. 31 earnings were up from...
...bill which called for an unemployment census, appropriated $5,000,000 and left the kind of job to be done up to the New Deal. Last month, Franklin Delano Roosevelt picked the man for the job. He was 49-year-old "Liberal Republican" President John D. Biggers, of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., whose "enlightened labor policies" brought him to Presidential notice. Last week, Mr. Biggers' plans for his census were complete...