Oral history interview with Raymond G. Fisher, 1975.

Biographical Note

Executive.

Scope and Contents

Early government statistical programs; Washington during New Deal; War Production Board allocation work; postwar rebuilding efforts in Berlin; strength of Continental's European subsidiaries; German vs. English social and economic structure; work for Rockefellers; Eisenhower campaign; General Clay's business philosophy, effects on Continental; steel strike, 1950s, move to packaging, 1950s mergers; success of Mills process in plastics markets; competition with American Can; acquisition and reorganization of Shellman plants; history of Diversified Products Group, coordination problems, sales; trends in can business over last twenty years; White Cap operations; product life cycles, profitability; production, distribution, profit problems of Bondware; Tee-pak, Crest cups; paper-plastic competition; international operations since the 1960s; coordination of European manufacturing and marketing programs; obsolescence of European licensee arrangements; worldwide expansion into economic developing areas, especially Brazil; foreign woodland resources; Russian business cooperation, association; future developmental possibilities in China, Indonesia.

Subjects

• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Container industry.
• Continental Can Company.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Fisher, Raymond G.--Interviews.
• International business enterprises.
• Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Paper containers.
• Presidents--United States--Election--1952.