Early government statistical programs; Washington during New Deal; War Production Board allocation work; postwar rebuilding efforts in Berlin; strength of Continental's European subsidiaries; German vs. English social and economic structure; work for Rockefellers; Eisenhower campaign; General Clay's business philosophy, effects on Continental; steel strike, 1950s, move to packaging, 1950s mergers; success of Mills process in plastics markets; competition with American Can; acquisition and reorganization of Shellman plants; history of Diversified Products Group, coordination problems, sales; trends in can business over last twenty years; White Cap operations; product life cycles, profitability; production, distribution, profit problems of Bondware; Tee-pak, Crest cups; paper-plastic competition; international operations since the 1960s; coordination of European manufacturing and marketing programs; obsolescence of European licensee arrangements; worldwide expansion into economic developing areas, especially Brazil; foreign woodland resources; Russian business cooperation, association; future developmental possibilities in China, Indonesia.
