Oral history interview with Lawrence Wilkinson, 1975.

Biographical Note

Army officer, executive.

Scope and Contents

International banking during the Depression; World War II: ordnance, Army machine tools, V-1 raids; rehabilitation of Germany post war: Berlin partitioning, blockade, airlift; General Lucius D. Clay; New York State Civil Defense Commission, 1950-1954; Continental Can, 1954: financial priorities, profit margins, European expansion, domestic acquisitions; functions of plant and area managers.

Subjects

• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Continental Can Company.
• Depressions--1929--United States.
• Executives--United States--Interviews.
• Germany--History--1945-1955.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• International business enterprises.
• Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• New York (State)--Politics and government--1951-
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States. Army--Ordnance facilities.
• Wilkinson, Lawrence--Interviews.
• World War, 1939-1945.