Changes All Around

ID: 2647 ~ Source: Woodrow Wilson Clements, interviewed by Thomas L. Charlton, 28 November 1984, in Dallas, Texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview
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Woodrow Wilson "Foots" Clements, chairman of the board of the Dr Pepper Company, discusses the impact of changing bottle sizes and materials on soda companies and bottle manufacturers.

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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…