Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Frederick J. Hoffman, 1975.Biographical NoteDirector, customer equipment service.
Scope and ContentsEducation; early canning business in Baltimore; World War II service; work as draftsman in Customer Equipment Service department of Continental Can; decline in customer equipment service after 1951 consent decree; designing can lines for customers; canning orange juice in Florida; closing machine sales; recollections of Continental Can executives; other companies raids for skilled personnel; history of closing machine design.
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