Oral history interview with Warren J. Hayford [electronic resource], 1975

Biographical Note

Business executive.

Scope and Contents

Army career; assistant to Robert Hatfield at Continental Can; salesman in Baltimore, Philadelphia; technical developments: easy open cans, two piece cans; patents and lead time, investment in two and three-piece can; overview of corporation investment and consolidation, Europe, paper, and metal; United States competition; direction of and prospects for the mills; reaction to Conoplan, 1969-71; Harvard course; corporate direction.

Subjects

• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Hayford, Warren J.--Interviews.
• International business enterprises.
• Interviews.
• Manufacturing processes.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.
• Oral histories.