Oral history interview with Reuben Perin, 1974.

Biographical Note

Business executive.

Scope and Contents

Continental Can career: 1928-1942, sales manager, Cincinnati area; 1942, General Sales Manager, Pacific Coast; 1949 General Sales Manager, New York City, 1950 vice president and general manager, 1952 Executive Vice President, Eastern Division, for manufacturing and sales; vice chairman of board; coordination of sales and manufacturing research, customer services; changes in administrative organization; diversification, competition, changing markets and resources, recycling; impressions of Hans Eggerss and General Lucius Clay.

Subjects

• Businessmen--Interviews.
• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Manufacturing processes.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Paper industry.
• Perin, Reuben--Interviews.
• Sales management.
• Sales personnel--Interviews.