Huntington / Hillsboro / Buffalo / Muncie / Scoville / Hartford / Olean / Okmulgee / Upland / St. Louis / Denver / Belleville / Birmingham / New York / /
Company
1901 Windfall Glass Co. / Ball-InCon Glass Packaging Corp. / United States Glass Co. / Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. / Consolidated Fruit Jar Co. / Owens-Illinois Glass Co. / Metropak Container Corp. / Ball Brothers Buyouts Date / FosterForbes Glass Co. / Ball-Foster Container Corp. / Ball Brothers Co. Inc. / St. Gobain Container Corp. / Kerr Glass Mfg. / Fort Wayne Glass Co. / Greenfield / H.L. Dixon & Co. / OK 1936 Three Rivers Glass Co. / KS 1913 Texas Bottle Co. / Ball Brothers Glass Mfg. / Ball Bros. / Ball Corp. / Marion Fruit Jar & Bottle Co. / 1904 Upland Glass Co. / Glass Mfg. / 1909 Root Glass Co. / Three Rivers Glass Co. / 1904 Swayzee Glass Co. / Wood Jacket Can Co. / St. Gobain / OK 1929 Pine Glass Corp. / Chesebrough Mfg. / Glass Manufacturing Co. / Ball Glass Container Corp. / TX 1925 Schram Glass Manufacturing Co. / Indian Head Container Corp. / Mason Fruit Jar & Bottle Co. / Hero Fruit Jar Co. / Greenfield Fruit Jar & Bottle Co. / Ripley & Co. / Owens Bottle Machine Co. / /
Country
Norway / Sweden / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
M&A / Force Majeure / Reorganization / Man-Made Disaster / Company Expansion / /
Facility
Greenfield plant / Olean plant / Port Glass Works Belleville / Fort Wayne Glass Co. / Muncie plant / Greenfield factory / Buffalo plant / Ball Brothers Muncie factory / Factory No. / /
IndustryTerm
rubber products / manufacturing processes / automatic machinery / manufacturing / opened gas wells / tin products / oil / power equipment / /
Organization
U.S. Government / Fruit Jar Sales Agency / Okmulgee Historical Society / UN Court / /
Person
Carol Serr / George Alexander / George H. Ball / Bill Lindsey / Edmund Burke Ball / William Bryan / William Charles Ball / Fred Petty / John Arbogast / Jonathan Haley / Bill Lockhart / H.H. Bridgewater / Lucius Lorenzo / Beau Schriever / MASON IMPROVED / Frank Clayton Ball / William F. Modes / Daniel C. Ripley / /
Position
president / vice president / County Clerk / Glass Worker / secretary and treasurer / preacher / executive / /
ProvinceOrState
West Virginia / Indiana / New York / Oklahoma / Colorado / Texas / Illinois / /
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