Oral history interview with Jess Belser [electronic resource], 1975

Biographical Note

Corporation executive.

Scope and Contents

Missile work at Watertown Arsenal; integrity, openness of Continental Can's management; mobility of modern management; direction of Baltimore, Pennsauken, Milton plants; operations engineering duties; advances in fibre drum technology and life of division; leverpak, weatherpak, liquipak; competition, necessary versatility of corrugated plants; operations evaluation, a manager's job; expansion into timber business; white paper and brown paper system group operations; future of folding carton field; Great Plains products: multiwall and grocery bags.

Subjects

• Belser, Jess--Interviews.
• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Factory management.
• Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E. interviewer.
• Oral histories.
• Paper containers.

Access Conditions

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