Presidential Visit
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The president of Owens-Illinois, J. P. Levis, visited Waco for the grand opening of the plant. All the supervisors and plant foremen posed for a picture with him, including manager George Walter, pictured here in the front row, third from the left.
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Owens-Illinois
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…