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...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...
There were still, however, a few individual surprises. Biggest was that of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., which netted a modest $357,347 in last year's first quarter, jumped that almost seven-fold to $2,412,471 this year.* The Texas Co., prospering with the rest of the oil industry upped its net a fat 48% to $11,878,754. General Motors set the pace for the auto industry, now at top war production, with a rise from...
...This was due partially to Plaskon Co. which became a Libbey-Owens division in April...
...Libbey-Owens-Ford went into plastics to manufacture the plastic sandwich-filler used between pieces of plate glass to make shatterproof automobile and airplane windshields. Recently Du Pont, pioneer of plastics, announced that it had put its sandwich filler to completely new uses...