Oral history interview with M.A. Higdon, 1975.

Biographical Note

Production manager.

Scope and Contents

Importance of forest products industry to North Carolina; family history; growing up in North Carolina; early connection with paper industry; early paper mills; art of papermaking; job safety; assessment of Gair and Fort Wayne operations; Continental Can merger; expansion prospects at Port Wentworth; supervision of Hopewell plant; new products work at Augusta; management organization of Continental Can.

Subjects

• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Continental Can Company.
• Factory management.
• Higdon, M. A.--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Paper containers.
• Paper industry.
• Supervisors, Industrial--Interviews.