Oral history interview with Gene P. Oehlberg, 1975.

Biographical Note

Administrator.

Scope and Contents

Chicago rotary and can seaming machines; apprenticeship, closing machine servicing; business travels 1920s-1940s, effects of Depression on canners; duties as regional supervisor of services; Canadian operations, equipment products expansion, competition with American Can; Gair and Perga equipment; administration of 1950 consent decree, impact on industry; establishing new customer service and sales policies, contract plans; viablility of Canadian and American operations over the years.

Subjects

• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Factory management.
• International business enterprises.
• Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oehlberg, Gene P.--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Sales management.