Oral history interview with Fred S. Hinkle, 1975.

Biographical Note

Assistant sales manager.

Scope and Contents

Paper bag sales; specialty bags; burlap, cotton vs. multiwall paper bag construction; history of Betner Bag Company; pioneer paper products; research for Electrolux; Betner acquisitions, diversification; Betner sales force; heat seal and cellophane bags; military packaging work, World War II and Korean War; Betner and Shellmar merger with Continental Can; consolidation of flexible packaging facilities; Texas labor situation, plant closure; Paoli, Mt. Vernon plant sites; duties as sales manager.

Subjects

• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Hinkle, Fred S.--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Paper containers.
• Sales personnel--Interviews.