Reminiscences of Alice E. Kraft : oral history, 1956

Biographical Note

Publishing executive

Scope and Contents

Platt's oil publications from 1911; history of NATIONAL PETROLEUM NEWS; choice of staff; experiences selling advertising in Texas; Platt's knowledge, personality, and integrity; growth of the PETROLEUM NEWS; dispute with National Recovery Administration; PLATT'S OILGRAM, daily publication, 1925; comparison of Platt and James H. McGraw as editors

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Kraft, Alice E., 1890-
• McGraw-Hill, inc.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Periodicals--Publishing.
• Petroleum industry and trade.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• Technical publishing.
• Women executives--Interviews.