Oral history interview with George E. Dyke, 1975.

Biographical Note

Business executive.

Scope and Contents

Transportation at turn of century; Wall Street broker; stock sales for Gair; Gair family; effects of Depression; construction of shipping containers, cartons, paperboard; use of waste paper vs pulp; modernization of Piermont plant; history of Owens-Illinois; Lucius Clay and Continental Can management personalities, merger; new bookkeeping system; cylinder vs fourdrinier machine; folding carton plants, profit margins; effects of World War II on Gair; pulp allocation; work in Office of Price Administration; Gair's Southern expansion; water pollution problems with Augusta plant; Southern woodland acquisitions; Richmond corrugated plant purchase; Gair-Ft. Wayne deal.

Subjects

• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Depressions--1929--United States.
• Dyke, George E.--Interviews.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Factory management.
• Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Waste paper--Recycling.