Oral history interview with George E. Dyke 1975
Oral history interview with George E. Dyke 1975
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- Name
- Dyke, George E (Interviewee)
- Nackman, Mark E (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with George E. Dyke 1975
- Abstract
- Transportation at turn of century; Wall Street broker; stock sales for Gair; Gair family; effects of Depression; construction of shipping containers, cartons, paperboard; use of waste paper vs pulp; modernization of Piermont plant; history of Owens-Illinois; Lucius Clay and Continental Can management personalities, merger; new bookkeeping system; cylinder vs fourdrinier machine; folding carton plan ts, profit margins; effects of World War II on Gair; pulp allocation; work in Office of Price Administration; Gair's Southern expansion; water pollution problems with Augusta plant; Southern woodland acquisitions; Richmond corrugated plant purchase; Gair-Ft. Wayne deal.
- Collection Name
- Continental Group project
- Subjects
- Executives; Containers; Depressions--1929--United States; Factory management; Waste paper--Recycling; Dyke, George E; Continental Can Company
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1975
- Note (Biographical)
- Business executive.
- Note
- Interviewed by Mark E. Nackman on December 20, 1974 and January 7, 1975.
- Note (Provenance)
- George E. Dyke, Gift 1975
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13537059
- Also In
- Time-Based Media
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-mp1b-p735
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.