First Job

ID: 2648 ~ Source: Ben W. Hough, interviewed by Sean Sutcliffe, 24 March, 2017 in Waco, Texas, Baylor University Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview
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Longtime O-I employee Ben W. Hough discusses his decision to accept a job with the company after his graduation from Baylor in 1950.

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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…