American Can Company
The American Can Company was a manufacturer of tin cans. It was a member of the Tin Can Trust, that controlled a "large percentage of business in the United States in tin cans, containers, and packages of tin." American Can Company ranked 97th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts. During its peak of productivity, the American Can Company employed up to 800 people from the surrounding neighborhoods. It was a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1959 to 1991, though after 1987 it had renamed itself Primerica, a financial conglomerate which had divested itself of its packaging arm in 1986. Primerica, after it was merged with Sanford I. Weill's Commercial Credit Company, would form the basis of what would become Citigroup. The American Can Company had its headquarters at the Pershing Square Building in Manhattan, New York City until 1970, when it moved into a Greenwich, Connecticut facility, which had been developed on 150 acres (61 ha) of wooded land in the late 1960s. In the early 1980s American Can renamed itself and ended its operations in Greenwich. |
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1934
Roles Represented in DAHR: sponsor
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | MS-81814 | 16-in. | 2/27/1934 | American Can Company | American Can Company | Slide show soundtrack : Talk, with dubbed recordings | sponsor |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "American Can Company," accessed October 5, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/103150.
American Can Company. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved October 5, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/103150.
"American Can Company." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 5 October 2024.
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External Sources
Wikipedia: American Can Company
Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: American Can Company - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81049981
Wikidata: American Can Company - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4743274
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