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Interview No. 785, Louis B. Mckee

Combined Interviews

Childhood memories; declares reasons for his father's success; discusses father's early career; quotes his father as saying his job was to "keep the opera singers singing." Speaks of his father as an innovator in offering employee benefits such as stock shares; compliments father as having a good relationship will employees; explains reasons for the company going public in 1971 and the procedures to register the company with American Stock Exchange in 1971; discusses merger of Robert E. McKee, Inc and the Zia Company, into Santa Fe Industries in 1973.