Oral history interview with Louis F. Henneke, 1975.

Biographical Note

Accountant.

Scope and Contents

Early childhood in the West; timekeeper for United States Can in the 1920s; building and production of East St. Louis plant; industrial accidents; Continental Can Company; cost control procedures, recollections of management personnel; Condit system, salaries and hours; plant production; Depression and World War II; constructions and acquisitions in St. Louis area; customer credit; modernization of accounting system, cost control under Sterling Smith; sales forecasts; paper division accountant, 1947; Contract and Price Department; company districts; competing manufacturers; Western Electric subcontract.

Subjects

• Accountants--Interviews.
• Accounting.
• Continental Can Company.
• Factory management.
• Henneke, Louis F.--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Sales management.