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1903, May |
The new factory of the Imperial Glass Co., at Bellaire, Ohio, is making good progress and it is expeted to hae it in operaiton by the fall. The Building, which measures 286x413 feet, will have three 14-pot furnaces and a continuous tank and will probably bh the largest independent concern making tableware in the United States. {2048} |
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1904, Febuary |
The new factory of the Imperial Glass Company at Bellaire, Ohio, was put in operation for the first time on February 3. This is one of the largest independent concerns in the country and it is most complete in all equipments. A full line of pressed and blown tableware will be made at the plant. {2057} |
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1904, March |
The Imperial Glass Company, of Bellaire, Ohio, has put another furnace and tank in operation and soon expects to have all the big plant running to its fullest capacity. It is now probable the largest independent tableware concern in the country, with the possible exception of the former McKee works at jeanette, Pa. {2060} |
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1932, October |
Armour Buys Carload of Premium Glassware The first carload of premium glassware to by used by Armour & Co. in a new oleomargarine promotion was shipped during the last week in September by Imperial Glass, Bellaire, O. {1022} |
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1933, April |
Beer Helps Glass Plants The Imperial Glass Corp., Bellaire, Ohio, reports that the volume of business for the first two months of 1933 exceeded the same period in 1932 by 33-1/3 per cent. This firm is operating its plant at 60 per cent of capacity, and with the present demand for beer accessories may find it necessary to increase production. {1009} |
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1934, July |
Something New Glass which resembles the frost on the windowpane on a very cold day in winter and would make any drink look most tempting on a hot summer day is used in tumblers and ice buckets. Some have hair lines of color at the top. Still another use of this frost glass is in wide bands of the frosted glass on clear crystal. Offered by the Imperial Glass Corp. Another new idea presented by this company shows lace edge items in opal glass. Plates or fancy bowls show the lace edges in white opal with the body in deepening tones of blue opal. |
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1943, December |
Imperial Board Approves Extensive Plans for Postwar Activities Comprehensive plans for postwar activities to be undertaken by the Imperial Glass Corporation were approved at a recent meeting of the board, according to the December issue of Glasszette, the corporation's newsy house organ. The plans which involve new equipment, new methods, new items, patented designs, decorations and processes, it was stated, "will be unfolded as the next few months pass." All indications, the story stated, point to greater employment and better merchandise at greater values. |
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1947, March 18 |
Imperial Creates Wide Interest With Unique Silver Dollar Day A unique public relations device was used at the Imperial Glass plant, Bellaire, Ohio, on March 18, when employes received their pay in silver dollars. Each employe was requested to keep the silver rolling, not to exchange it or hoard it. Merchants were likewise asked to keep the coins circulating. City officials and prominent Bellaire citizens gave their fullest co-operation. Mayor Edward Conaway declared "Silver Dollar Day," and Bellaire went on the air on Stations WKWK and WWVA. Carl Gutsky, president of Imperial, said, "The object of this demonstration is to show the worth and value of Imperial payrolls to this community." The payroll was taken from the First National Bank to the Imperial plant under escort of City police and state highway patrolmen. Payroll clerks placed each employe's pay in special boxes and the pay was distributed Friday afternoon at 3:30. The payroll amounted to almost $32,000. Local residents termed the campaign "the outstanding public relations stunt of the year." |
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1947, December |
Imperial Employee Relations The Imperial Glass Corporation has added another valuable link to prosperous company-employe relationship with the issuance of a 20-page pamphlet in answer to the question "Who profits from profits?" Prefaced by a "memo" from President C. 1W. Gustkey to the employes of Imperial, the booklet reveals that two cents of every dollar taken in by glassware sales are considered to be "profits." The remaining 98 cents are consumed by wages, materials, taxes, repairs, selling and advertising, and fuel and power. |
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1951, February |
New Showrooms New showrooms were scheduled to be opened by the Imperial Glass Corporation on January 15 at 404 Brack Shops Building, Los Angeles. In accordance with previously announced, H. Earl Gustkey, Imperial vice president, is in charge of sales operations from his new West Coast headquarters. |
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1951, October |
Imperial Glass Names Industrial Design Firm Smith-Scheer, industrial designers of Akron, Ohio, have been retained by the Imperial Glass Corporation, Bellaire, Ohio, to design and develop new glass tableware and miscellaneous lines. The new ware is expected to be presented to the trade in the very near future. |
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1952, November |
IMPERIAL TO PRODUCE FIBER GLASS Imperial Glass Corporation, Bellaire, Ohio, a major manufacturer of hand-made table and decorative glassware, has broadened its scope and is currently experimenting with the production of fiber glass. FiGlass, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Imperial, has been set up and a pilot plant is currently in operation producing test quantities of fiber glass for plastic reinforcement and other uses. To further its expansion plans, Imperial has obtained a $365,000 loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. |
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1953, March |
New Showroom The Imperial Glass Corporation, Bellaire, Ohio, marked the opening of its brand new 11th-floor showroom at 225 Fifth Avenue last month with a gala "open house." On hand to greet guests were Carl Gustkey, Lucile Kennedy, and other Imperial officials. In charge of the new showroom, which features a wealth of display ideas adaptable to retail shop use, is Robert I. Crunelle, newly appointed Eastern sales representative for the firm. Mr. Crunelle succeeds Ed Kleiner, who has been placed in charge of Imperial's private mould accounts. |
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