Oral history interview with Lewis B. Pitts [electronic resource], 1974

Biographical Note

Sales officer, executive.

Scope and Contents

Banking experience; salesman with Great Southern Box company; packaging in World War II; vice president and general manager, 1947; merger with Robert Gair, 1955; Southern area manager; merger with Continental Can, 1956; sales officer; impressions of executives.

Subjects

• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Factory management.
• Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.
• Oral histories.
• Pitts, Lewis B.--Interviews.
• Sales personnel--Interviews.