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Show Home Towners Make Marbles for Defense PARKERSBURG, W. Va. Home town workers here are turning out 7,138,640 marbles a week, enough for all of the lads in the land, but these taws are not being produced for play. They are going into military mili-tary products. The manufacture of the marbles is the first step in producing fiber glass at the new plant of the Llbbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, which is working on military contracts. After the transparent little globes are inspected carefully for quality, qual-ity, they are subjected to 3000 de- grees of heat and drawn into filaments fila-ments that are too fine to be seen by the naked eye. Each marble yields about 42 miles of .filament. With plant production pro-duction running about 1,019,520 marbles a day, that's a total of 43,227,684 miles of gossamer glass for textile yarn turned out each 24 hours. It's enough to reach to Mars with several million miles to spare. Although the Parkersburg workers work-ers are making their first fiber glass, many of them previously had experience in making glass, having been employed in the L-O-F Vitro-lite Vitro-lite plant which formerly occupied the site of the new factory. |