Oral history interview with Robert E. Lambert, 1974.

Biographical Note

District sales manager.

Scope and Contents

Family background and education; memories of Depression; can manufacturing technology during the 1930s; 1939 Continental Can sales representative in Oil City, Pennsylvania; Army service 1942-46; improvements in can manufacturing technology during World War II; construction of new plant in Pittsburgh; difficulties in finding new customers in western Pennsylvania; management of Pittsburgh plant; labor problems; Continental Can's concern for its reputation.

Subjects

• Continental Can Company.
• Depressions--1929--United States.
• Factory management.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• Lambert, Robert E.--Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Sales management.
• Sales personnel--Interviews.