Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Mason Britton : oral history, 1954Biographical NotePublishing executive, consultant metal trades industry
Scope and ContentsWork with Atlantic Coastline Railroads; employment by AMERICAN MACHINIST, 1901; recollections of John A. Hill; honest circulation, changes in advertising, expansion and reorganization after purchase of POWER; Hill's publishing philosophy, competition with James H. McGraw, and merger; effects of World War I, the Depression and World War II on McGraw-Hill, consolidation of book companies; work for government during World War II; recollections of Arthur Baldwin
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