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8 articles, most recently updated first
How Ball Brothers acquired the Three Rivers plant through concealed bond purchase and foreclosure, reconstructed from the federal antitrust trial record
Separates the four distinct events collapsed into the popular closure narrative, corrected from the federal antitrust trial record
Documents the factory site's thirty-five-year afterlife: the surviving tank, the Mexican brick correspondence, and five tenants on the ground by 1972
Corrects the attribution of the Palestine, Texas glass plant from Owens-Illinois to Knox Glass, with one documented worker-migration case
Chronology of Three Rivers Glass's second factory at Bastrop, Louisiana, operated 1929-1933, with a disputed account of its purpose
How Charles Tips retained the sales contracts through Tips Glass Sales Corporation and attempted a Kansas plant after the foreclosure
Reconstructs the Three Rivers mould shop from a signed staff roster, correcting the collector literature's conflation of designers and mould makers
Identifies Three Rivers as the attested maker of H&H Crystalvac jars and evaluates the unconfirmed Owens-Illinois attribution