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...Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. of Toledo reported 1935 earnings of $8,167,000 compared to $3,161,000 in 1934. Like many another 1935 recovery, the improvement in Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. depended largely on the 1935 boom in the motor industry. Libbey-Owens-Ford and Pittsburgh Plate Glass make some 90% of U. S. plate glass. They split this lion's share about evenly, 'but Libbey-Owens-Ford is the leader in safety glass production. Safety glass is made by sticking two ordinary sheets of glass together with a plastic binder. When struck, safety glass...
...motor car windshields are now made of safety glass and 21 states compel the use of safety glass in all passenger car windows. Libbey-Owens-Ford makes about 50% of U. S. window glass, but the window business has languished throughout Depression. Even in 1934, however, the company's window trade increased 41% over 1933. Should a real building boom materialize in 1936, what was once Libbey-Owens-Ford's only business will again become a major item...
...Libbey-Owens-Ford (along with Pittsburgh Plate) also manufactures invisible glass. Invisible glass is not really invisible, but when properly set up in a show window it does produce the illusion of invisibility. If glass were a perfect transmitter of light, all glass would be invisible. But glass is not perfectly transparent. Some of the light rays which strike it are reflected back to the eye of the observer. Invisible glass is curved in such a way that the reflected light is sent upwards and downwards into black velvet pads which completely absorb it. Since no light gets back...
President of Libbey-Owens-Ford is John David Biggers, one of the old Owens Bottle Co. executives in the days before Owens became Owens-Illinois. After leaving Owens in 1926, he was managing director of Dodge Bros. (Britain) Ltd., for one year, later vice president of Graham Brothers Corp., still later of Graham-Paige International Corp. Then he got out of motors and back into glass, has been head of Libbey-Owens-Ford since...
...York automobile show (see col. 3), traders bought motor stocks with more enthusiasm than selection. Packard, Nash, Reo, Studebaker, Hudson, Graham-Paige-everything on four wheels-went rolling through the market on high, even if it rolled on a deficit basis. Strong also were Murray and Briggs (bodies), Libbey-Owens-Ford (auto-glass) and Kelsey-Hayes (wheels). Other favorites were steels and oils, while farm implement stocks continued their recent rise (TIME, Oct. 28) with J. I. Case going over...