Oral history interview with Robert Baer, 1975.

Biographical Note

Regional manager.

Scope and Contents

Work for Wright Aeronautical Corporation on B-29 engines; composite can production; canmaker training; wildcat strikes during years as assistant plant manager; handling of union problems as plant manager at Houston; use of female employees; integrating the Houston plant; future of Conoweld; alumium vs. steel cans; Continental Can loyalty.

Subjects

• Aeronautics.
• Baer, Robert--Interviews.
• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Factory management.
• Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Wright Aeronautics Corporation.