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...Other proponents of the plan: Housing Suppliers Charles E. Wilson (General Electric), John D. Biggers (Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass), Ben Moreell (Jones & Laughlin Steel), Melvin Baker (National Gypsum), Clifford J. Backstrand (Armstrong Cork), Lewis H. Brown (Johns-Manville), J. Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr. (Weyerhaeuser Timber...
Unprecedented U.S. building activity helped Johns-Manville Corp. nail up a net of $10.1 million, a 75% gain. Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., which benefited from both the building and auto booms, boosted its $9,100,000 net to $15 million...
Johnson had talked his ideas over with such men as the Rev. John F. Cronin, assistant director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, A.F.L. Economist Boris Shishkin, C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey, Libbey-Owens-Ford's President John D. Biggers, RCA's President Frank Folsom, Macy's President Jack I. Straus, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Herman Steinkraus. Their final report called for nothing less than revolution in the basic approach to labor-management relations...
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...