Steel construction in the west : oral history transcript / Harold W. Dornsife ; with introductions by George H. "Chuck" De Kay and James S. Little ; interviews conducted by Lisa Jacobson in 1988 and 1989. 1991.

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Steel construction in the west : oral history transcript / Harold W. Dornsife ; with introductions by George H. "Chuck" De Kay and James S. Little ; interviews conducted by Lisa Jacobson in 1988 and 1989. 1991.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215167076

Dornsife discusses his Indiana background, values; basketball scholarship to University of Southern California, 1934; Standard Oil Co. of California, 1939-1946; Industrial Relations Section, Cal Tech, 1941; C. F. Braun & Co., refinery operations, 1946-1954; buying and building up Herrick Iron Works, 1956-1965; Herrick Pacific Corp., 1965-1989; British and Japanese steelmakers, competition strategies and shop methods, earthquake-proof high-rise construction in and out of California; structural steel industry in the West; strategies, imports and tariffs, labor relations, no-growth movement, trade associations; Gillig Corp. and other subsidiaries of Herrick Pacific Corp.

viii, 137 p. : ill., port. ; 29 cm. + accompanying material.

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De Kay, George H.

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Little, James Stanley, 1856-1940

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Herrick Iron Works History Project.

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Jacobson, Lisa A.

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Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office

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According to the University of California, Berkeley Bancroft Library website: "The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) is a research program of the University of California, Berkeley, working within The Bancroft Library. ROHO conducts, teaches, analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history of California and the United States." For more information regarding the ROHO and their work please consult their website: http://bancroft....

Herrick Iron Works.

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Herrick Pacific Corporation.

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Dornsife, Harold W., 1915-1999.

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