Oral history interview with Robert Sherman Hatfield 1975
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- Name
- Hatfield, Robert Sherman (Interviewee)
- Nackman, Mark E (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Robert Sherman Hatfield 1975
- Abstract
- Education; sales training program at Continental Can; Jersey City plant production; changes in manufacture during World War II; personnel involved in development of beer can production; cone top vs. flat top cans; impact of Robert Heller Associates; post-war tin allocation program; administrative centralization/decentralization under Hans Eggerss, General Clay, Thomas Fogarty; area manager, 1952-6; formation of and problems with Southern Division; distinction between line and staff executive functions; promotions to executive vice president, later Chief Operating Officer; 1959 price war in metal cans; extruded and drawn wall method for two-piece can, Conoweld process; self-manufacture; Conoplan; environmental questions; international expansion; forecasts for metal, forest and diversified products.
- Collection Name
- Continental Group project
- Subjects
- Executives; Containers; Manufacturing processes; Factory management; International business enterprises; Hatfield, Robert Sherman; Continental Can Company
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1975
- Note (Biographical)
- Corporation executive.
- Note
- Interviewed by Mark E. Nackman on May 13 and June 25, 1975.
- Note (Provenance)
- Robert Sherman Hatfield, Gift 1975
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13539806
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-nev0-5174
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.