Oral history interview with Walter J. Coker 1975
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- Name
- Coker, Walter J (Interviewee)
- Nackman, Mark E (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Walter J. Coker 1975
- Abstract
- Family, educational background; accounting work for South Paperboard, Gair; Port Wentworth pulp mill; evaluation of Hodge operations; Continental Can's southern plan expansion program; employee reactions to Continental's acquisition of Gair; installation of cost systems; Hopewell plant operations and products; construction, organization of Augusta mill, problems; manufacturing of profit versus volu me items; economic, morale problems at Augusta; survival-expansion project at Hodge; training, public relations programs; advantages and demands of plant manager position; management-union friction at Hopewell; need for semi-chemical paperboard expansion; Hopewell energy collection program.
- Collection Name
- Continental Group project
- Subjects
- Accountants; Executives; Factory management; Accounting; Paper industry; Coker, Walter J; Continental Can Company
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1975
- Note (Biographical)
- Plant manager.
- Note
- Interviewed by Mark E. Nackman on June 3, 1975.
- Note (Provenance)
- Walter J. Coker, Gift 1976
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13536895
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-q1hx-eq69
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.