Oral history interview with Helmer R. Johnson, 1975.

Biographical Note

Lawyer.

Scope and Contents

Acquisitions: Hummel-Ross, Shellmar, Betner; buying and selling of Filer City; General Clay's philosophy; Elmer Mills company; White Cap acquisition, acquisition Hazel-Atlas, anti-trust suit; Supreme Court proceedings; Gair case dismissal; can and glass container markets; decline in morale of glass operations; Fort Wayne and corrugated industry; international operations: European licensing program, formation of Europemballage, Treaty of Rome, Common Market cartel law; authority of European Economic Community; merger possibilities in 1970s.

Subjects

• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Continental Can Company.
• Corporation law--Cases.
• European Economic Community.
• Glass containers.
• International business enterprises.
• Interviews.
• Johnson, Helmer R.--Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)