Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Ellison Lockwood Hazard [electronic resource], 1974
Creator: | Hazard, Ellison Lockwood | Project: | Continental Group project. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Sound file: digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteChief executive officer, president.
Scope and ContentsEducation; 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 and domestic expansion, retirement in 1971; impressions of General Lucius Clay, Thomas Fogarty, other can executives.
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