Thirty years ago Michael Owens, glassblower, revolutionized the glass business by inventing a machine that was a substitute for human lungs in bottle making. Out of his invention grew the great Owens Bottle Co. of Toledo. Four years ago a merger made Owens Bottle into Owens-Illinois Glass Co., biggest U. S. bottle maker, producer of 40% of U. S. bottles, and made William Edward Levis its active head. Last week William Edward Levis gave signs of introducing another revolution to the bottle business, vertical integration of a new kind: Owens-Illinois having acquired a...
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