Reminiscences of Robert Sherman Hatfield : oral history, 1975.

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Reminiscences of Robert Sherman Hatfield : oral history, 1975.

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Education; sales training program at Continental Can; Jersey City plant production; changes in manufacture during World War II; personnel involved in development of beer can production; cone top vs. flat top cans; impact of Robert Heller Associates; post-war tin allocation program; administrative centralization/decentralization under Hans Eggerss, General Clay, Thomas Fogarty; area manager, 1952-6; formation of and problems with Southern Division; distinction between line and staff executive functions; promotions to executive vice president, later Chief Operating Officer; 1959 price war in metal cans; extruded and drawn wall method for two-piece can, Conoweld process; self-manufacture; Conoplan; environmental. questions; international expansion; forecasts for metal, forest and diversified products.

Transcript: 103 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Corporation executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Sherman Hatfield : oral history, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527554 ...