Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Fred E. Hummel, 1974.Biographical NoteBusinessman.
Scope and ContentsWorld War I American Field Service experience; work for father's business, Hummel-Downing Company; as a seaman aboard ship to South America; civil unrest in Chile; work for father in Hopewell, Va.; making kraft liner board and solid fiber; promotion to president of Hummel-Ross, 1933; Depression; use of German P.O.W.s as labor, World War II; merger of Hummel-Ross and Continental Can, 1947.
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