Oral history interview with Clark A. Valentiner, 1975.

Biographical Note

General manager.

Scope and Contents

Work for United States Can in East St. Louis in 1920s, bootlegging, male and female employees; merger with Continental Can, reorganization, expansion; director of Continental Can subsidiary in Cuba, 1930-1960: labor, taxes, Cuban-American trade and political relations; Havana in the 1930s; Continental Can benefits program, sales, customer service, quality control, competition; political background of revolution; company departure from Cuba, 1960.

Subjects

• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Cuba--Economic conditions--1918-1959.
• Cuba--History--1933-1959.
• Cuba--Social conditions.
• Executives--Interviews.
• International business enterprises.
• Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Personnel management.
• Valentiner, Clark A.--Interviews.