Reminiscences of Richard Rowden : oral history, 1954

Biographical Note

Publishing executive

Scope and Contents

Early work experience; Columbia University, A.B.1928; with McGraw-Hill Book Company from 1929; impact of the Depression; impressions of Martin Foss; office manager; effect of World War II; vice president in charge of inventory control, warehousing, shipping, trade adjustments and general files; problems with inventory control and storage; communication between divisions; international market

Subjects

• Book industries and trade.
• Depressions--1929--United States.
• Interviews.
• McGraw-Hill, inc.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• Rowden, Richard, 1905-
• World War, 1939-1945.