Oral history interview with Howard B. Chadwick and Anthony Civitello, 1975.

Biographical Note

Executive sales manager.

Scope and Contents

History of paper bag business, Benjamin C. Betner and Thomas M. Royal; packaging, food retailing in early 1900s; Betner Bag Company's development of glassine paper, polyethyline, bagmaking and printing equipment; Benco filling machine; the Depression; Devon plant location and employee transportation problems; competitors; National Recovery Act and unionization of Betner plants; development of instant coffee; Betner's growth, World War II; small unit packaging; Betner and Continental Can merger in 1953; product diversification; duties of executive sales manager and plant manager.

Subjects

• Chadwick, Howard B.--Interviews.
• Civitello, Anthony, interviewee.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ive
• Civitello, Anthony--Interviews.
• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Continental Can Company.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Manufacturing processes.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Paper containers.
• Sales management.
• Sales personnel--Interviews.