Fifty active years, 1928-1978 : An interview by Archie K. Davis with W. B. Murphy [typescript], 1978.

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Fifty active years, 1928-1978 : An interview by Archie K. Davis with W. B. Murphy [typescript], 1978.

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Ibimatic-bound volume edited by Archie K. Davis on behalf of the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The typescript comprises 275 numbered pages plus two additional pages and contains an index. Murphy is interviewed by Davis about his education, his career at A.C. Nielsen Company; his career at Campbell Soup Company in Camden, New Jersey; and issues concerning marketing, food consumption and distribution, and the economics of food and business.

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