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Oral history interview with Walter J. Coker, 1975.

Creator: Coker, Walter J.
Project: Continental Group project.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript 118 pages Sound recording 1 reel
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Plant manager.

Scope and Contents

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 volume 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.

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