Oral history interview with Ellison Lockwood Hazard 1974
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- Name
- Hazard, Ellison Lockwood (Interviewee)
- Nackman, Mark E (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Ellison Lockwood Hazard 1974
- Abstract
- Education; service with Continental Can from hourly laborer (1934) to president (1963): draftman, designing equipment, establishing standards for cans and dies, coordinator war products manufacture during World War II, changes at Los Angeles Plant 11, Advanced Management Program at Harvard, decentralization, acquisitions, anti-trust suit, Clearing Plant in Chicago, management philosophy, foreign a nd domestic expansion, retirement in 1971; impressions of General Lucius Clay, Thomas Fogarty, other can executives.
- Collection Name
- Continental Group project
- Subjects
- Executives; Container industry--Equipment and supplies; International business enterprises; World War, 1939-1945--Equipment and supplies; Hazard, Ellison Lockwood; Continental Can Company
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1974
- Note (Biographical)
- Chief executive officer, president.
- Note
- Interviewed by Mark E. Nackman on September 5, October 14, and October 16, 1974.
- Note (Provenance)
- Ellison Lockwood Hazard, Gift 1975
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 13539838
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-e6zq-jy84
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.