Oral history interview with Richard Leonard Carlton 1975
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- Name
- Carlton, Richard Leonard (Interviewee)
- Nackman, Mark E (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Richard Leonard Carlton 1975
- Abstract
- Education; work for Continental Can as accounting and credit clerk; steamboat can shipments, Baltimore-Eastern Shore; management personalities; delinquent accounts, customer credit, interest charges; rivalry with American Can; Depression; warehouse receipt financing; duties as credit manager, New Orleans and San Francisco; increased use of telephone in business; impact of Robinson-Patman Act; packe rs canners vs. general line canners; move to head office in New York; Credit Department organization,; evaluation of Continental Can.
- Collection Name
- Continental Group project
- Subjects
- Credit managers; Accountants; Containers; Credit departments; Carlton, Richard Leonard; Continental Can Company
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1975
- Note (Biographical)
- Assistant Treasurer; General Credit Manager.
- Note
- Interviewed by Mark E. Nackman on June 2nd, 1975.
- Note (Provenance)
- Richard Leonard Carlton, Gift 1975
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 13536847
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-0zzg-qg52
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.