The War Effort

ID: 2454 ~ Source: Waco, Texas: Business and Industry: Owens-Illinois, Inc. Vertical File, The Texas Collection, Baylor University.
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The War Effort

Birthed in the midst of war, the Waco plant continued to proudly produce goods for the United States military and often published ads in the local newspaper thanking men for their service.

This file appears in: Owens-Illinois

By Anabel Burke
Owens-Illinois Inc., one of the largest glass bottle manufacturers in the world, originally came out of the famous Glass Capital of the World—Toledo, Ohio—in 1903. With its success came expansion, and the company opened a plant in Waco, Texas, on…