This project spans seventy years (1904-1974) of Continental Can Company (now The Continental Group, Inc.) history as told by 226 retired and active employees from all job and management categories. Semi-skilled factory workers and chief executive officers alike discuss corporate and industrial development in a variety of packaging fields embraced by Continental: metal cans, crowns and closures, glass and plastic containers, folding and corrugated cartons, fiber drums, grocery and multi-wall bags, paper cups and tubs, and flexible packaging. Manufacturing operations are described in detail, particularly in can plants and paper mills. Prominent themes are technological change through research and engineering, labor relations, mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategies and organization, international business, and government relations. Individual careers are followed, illustrating employee morale, the work ethic, opportunity and mobility in an industrial corporation, the role of personalities in management, the decision-making process, company loyalty, and corporate social responsibility. The wider context of American life is brought out in many of the interviews, and readers will find material on World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II among other social, economic, and political subjects. Participants, pagination, and restrictions as noted: Alfred J. Abplanalp, 75; Claude M. Adams, 109; William M. Allin, 94; Charles Altier, 53; George M. Ambrose, 112; Joseph P. Arrigo, 89; Ed Askew, 87; John L. Badinelli, 94; Robert W. Baer, 89; Matthew V. Barbieri, 69; George H. Barker, 111; Gregory J. Barry, 67; Jess L. Belser, 68; Harold A. Bergstrom, 90; Bernard D. Bloser, 88; Louis G. Bohs, 94; Walter Elder Bond, 125; Lewis Bozell, 131; Thomas F. Brady, 76; Edward H. Broadwell, 95; John R. Brown, 73; Stephen L. Brown, 95; Frank W. Burns, 274; Allan Cameron, 70; William M. Cameron, 77; Leonard G. Cannella, 97; Lee A. Carey, 121; Albert H. Carle, 78; James V. Carlson, 114, (permission required); Richard L. Carlton, 107; Clarence E. Carrel, 112; Howard B. Chadwick and Anthony J. Civitello, 188; Wayne T. Chiappe, 159, (permission required); Mary F. Clair, 51; Lucius D. Clay, 92; Walter J. Coker, Jr., 118; Oscar E. Collins, 90; Patrick J. Coyne, 102; Walter C. Curtiss, Jr., 105; Mary T. Daly, 77; Neil C. Darrach, 70; George Davis, 130, (permission required); John H. Dennis, 115; Oscar De Sylva, 120; Merton L. Dodge, 85; James I. Donahue, 45; George E. Dyke, 116; George Edmonds, 67; Charles E. Eggerss, 56; Peter E. Fagan, 86; John Fedosky, Jr., 109; Harvey H. Fell, 72; Alfred H. Fisher, 72; Raymond G. Fisher, 163, (permission required); Sylvester L. Flugge, 83; Thomas C. Fogarty, 153, (permission required); Robert C. Foss, 77; Andrew E. Fox, 60; Joseph Frain, 52, (permission required); Participants continued: Floyd E. Franklin, 94; Rose Frost, 78; E. Ewart Fry, 57; John E. Gallagher, 149; James M. Gibb, 100; Arleigh D. Gifford, 78; Bruce B. Gordon, 95; Arthur Graf and L. Virgil Jones, 111; Edwin H. Graves, 95; Jacob Greco, 79; Henry J. Hagan, 85; Hans A. Hanel, 77; Lowell K. Hanson, 99; James J. Harris, 87; Robert S. Hatfield, 103; Martin L. Haupt, 58; Charles B. Hayes, 114; Warren J. Hayford, 59; Ellison L. Hazard, 228; Robert D. Heaviside, 88; John M. Heinen, Jr., 93; John L. Heinlein, 127; Robert L. Heitman, 141; John Henchert, 95; Louis F. Henneke, 123; Raymond L. Hicks, 85; M.A. Higdon, 99; Paul E. Hile, 72; Fred S. Hinkle, 109; Mrs. William Hodgson, 9; Frederick J. Hoffman, 77; Edward J. Holder, 71; Fred W. Hoover, 83; Charles S. Huestis, 102; Fred E. Hummel, 54; T. Merritt Hunter, 77; Otto F. Hunziker, 134, (permission required); Richard H. Ireland, 178; Oliver G. Jakob, 60; Frank E. Johnson, 113; Helmer R. Johnson, 107; Scott R. Johnson, 161, (closed until 01/01/2000); William H. Kaiser, 49; Mary H. Kalamar, 71; Louis F. Kalmar, 91; Roy G. Kennedy, 110; Thomas P. Keogh, 129; James F. Kinlock, 79; Joseph A. Kissinger, 84; Alfred W. Kitselman, 76; Walter E. Klint, 51; Genevieve Kuzma, 71; Warren A. Lacke, 77; Robert E. Lambert, 91; George K. Landon, 57; Jerrold E. Landon, 48; Wilson B. Larkin, 74; Burford LaTouche, 77; Robert A. Lehman, 139; Leroy W. Leiter, 73; Howard G. Lewis, 110; William J. Lobrovich, 86; Edward J. Lynn, 69. Participants continued: Orren R. McJunkins, 69, (permission required); Thomas McLaughlin, 107; Leighton McLendon, 90; Robert M. McPherson, 82; Edward H. Marshall, 113; Vido Matich, 84; Ralph M. Mero, 83, (permission required); Robert B. Mesrobian, 72; Robert C. Meyers, 75; Kenneth G. Michel, 92; James P. Morgan, 172; John W. Morris, Sr., 112; Hans Herbert Munte, 102; Walter Murray, 72; George H. Muth, 144; William I. Myers, 70; Charles A. Nash, 119; Wilbur K. Neuman, 90; Charles J. OC̀onnor, 95; Eugene J. OC̀onnor, 103; Gene P. Oehlberg, 96; Vera R. Oehlberg, 89; Iver J. Olsen, 93; James H. OǸeil, 62; Seymour Oppenheimer, 107; Robert A. Penk, 133; Reuben Perin, 185; Louis G. Petree, 108; Lewis B. Pitts, 59; C. Rogers Pollack, 72; Robert D. Post, 79; George E. Prokupek, 79; William H. Puschel, 110; Arl S. Rapp, 87; Jerome R. Roberts, 99; Morris O. Roberts, 84; Frank A. Rockwell, 66; John L. Rowe, 104; Herbert S. Ruekberg, 83; Howard P. Ryan, 141; Edgar L. Sauters, 112; Earl C. Savage, 31, (permission required); Jerome J. Schneewind, 93; Edward A. Schrader, 24; Harry A. Scott, 97; Edward W. Seibert, 108; Evelyn Norton Seiler, 47; Jack Selbiger, 115; Joseph J. Sennello, 83; Richard G. Shaughnessy, 111; Fred B. Shaw, 89, (permission required); Anne Siroky, 89; A. Gerald Skibbe, 97; S. Bruce Smart, 115; Isaac L. Smith, 123; Jimmie H. Smith, 107. Participants continued: Wyatt Speight, 109; Leslie T. Stansbury, 87; Charles B. Stauffacher, 127, (permission required); Sidney R. Steele, 57; Alois Steiner, 78; Arthur E. Stevenson, 82; James A. Stewart, 83, (permission required); Woodrow Stillwagon, 100; Donald W. Stitt, 145, (permission required); Clarence L. Stone, 107; Dean Stout, 35; Robert V. Swartz, 54; Harry Swideck, 80; John C. Swift, 85; Frederick A. Tennant, 134; Bernard ter Haar, 97; Mary Ellen Tewksbury, 82; Roque Torrea, 112; Lester Tripp, 111; Bon H. Trullinger, 60; Allan Trumbull, 71; Robert E. Tucker, 87; Frances A. Tyler, 79, (permission required); Clark A. Valentiner, 203; Charles E. Valiant, 63; Camiel F. Vanderbush, 104; Aubrey W. Vaughn, Jr., 91; Allen P. Vining, 164; Charles E. Wallace, 66; Everett A. Weathers, 96, (permission required); Richard D. Weinland, 159; Archie L. Wenrich, 73; Colin L. Westerbeck, 100; William Wheelis, 96; Philip OC̀onnell White, 66, (closed except to Continental Group); Robert P. White, 69, (closed until 01/01/2000); Ralph L. Whittal, 80; Lawrence Wilkinson, 141; David and Patricia Wilson, 112; Roger V. Wilson, 112; James Wirsta, 62; Peter Wojtul, 149, (permission required); Alphonse Wunsch, 100; Armand R. Zazueta, 85; Donald H. Zipper, 87.
