Reminiscences of Roger M. Blough : oral history, 1975.

Biographical Note

Corporation executive.

Scope and Contents

Family background and education; Yale Law School; corporate and labor cases, White & Case, 1931-41; Depression, New Deal legislation; United States Steel, 1942-1969: wartime production, steel prices and wages, War Labor Board; subsidiaries, raw materials procurement, Korean War, seizure of steel industry, 1952; military vs. civilian production needs; 1962 confrontation of President Kennedy and steel industry; worker safety and environmental protection measures; business liaisons with government.

Subjects

• Blough, Roger M. (Roger Miles), 1904-1985.
• Depressions--1929--United States.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Gibson, Mary Bass, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
• Korean War, 1950-1953.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories.
• Steel industry and trade.
• United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
• United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945)
• United States Steel Corporation.
• White & Case.
• World War, 1939-1945.

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