Dale F. Halton oral history interview 4, 2018 June 27

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Ms. Dale F. Halton discusses the lives of her grandparents, Henry Barksdale Fowler and Sarah "Sadie" Caroline Clarkson, and their experiences managing the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Charlotte in the 1940s and 1950s. Topics discussed include Ms. Halton's memories of her grandparents as a little girl and her relationships with them throughout her life; her grandparents' reputation as business people in Charlotte and among their employees; the ways in which the company was forced to shift and adapt during World War II and Ms. Halton's recitation of the speech Sadie gave at LaGuardia Airport in front of Eleanor Roosevelt for the Works Progress Administration in 1940; and how Ms. Halton's personal business sense came to be shaped by the different people she met throughout her life.