Oral history interview with Richard H. Ireland, 1974.

Biographical Note

Purchasing manager.

Scope and Contents

Economic life in Baltimore, early twentieth century; 1917 Army service in France; 1920 purchasing clerk, Southern Can Campany; 1928 acquisition by Continental Can: changes in plant layout, Conoplan; World War II, paper shortage; 1944 division manager of purchasing, New York, N.Y.: reorganization, liaison between local agents and sources, utilizing surpluses; 1958, assistant general manager of purchasing, scrap disposal; assemblage and materials in can and box making, shipping, suppliers and purchasing agents, efficiency and economy.

Subjects

• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Container industry--Equipment and supplies.
• Continental Can Company.
• Factory management.
• Interviews.
• Ireland, Richard H.--Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Supervisors, Industrial--Interviews.
• World War, 1914-1918.