Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Richard Leonard Carlton, 1975.Biographical NoteAssistant Treasurer; General Credit Manager.
Scope and ContentsEducation; work for Continental Can as accounting and credit clerk; steamboat can shipments, Baltimore-Eastern Shore; management personalities; delinquent accounts, customer credit, interest charges; rivalry with American Can; Depression; warehouse receipt financing; duties as credit manager, New Orleans and San Francisco; increased use of telephone in business; impact of Robinson-Patman Act; packers canners vs. general line canners; move to head office in New York; Credit Department organization,; evaluation of Continental Can.
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