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During World War I and World War II, Bethlehem Steel was a major supplier of armor plate and ordinance to the U.S. armed forces, including armor plate and large-caliber guns for the U.S. Navy, and was influential to U.S. victories in both wars. Bethlehem Steel "was the most important to America's national defense of any company in the past century.
Bethlehem Steel Corporation Shipbuilding Division was created in 1905 when the Bethlehem Steel Corporation of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, acquired the San Francisco-based shipyard Union Iron Works. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1917, it was incorporated as Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Limited .
Ore Steamship Company would transport iron ore to the Bethlehem Steel mills on the Atlantic coast. Some ships took steel and steel products to Bethlehem Shipyards. Port of Baltimore was a major Bethlehem Steel port, the dock was 2,200 feet long in order to load and unload three large, 28,000-ton cargo ships at the same time. [1] [2] [3] Ore ships:
It focuses on the corporation's history with steel-making. [5] This exhibit serves to present insight into the daily lives of workers part of Bethlehem Steel which employed 31,000 people at peak. [4] The three Bethlehem Steel plant models showcased in this exhibit were used training employees and testing out modifications to the factories. [10]
When Martin Tower opened, Bethlehem Steel was the second-largest steel producer in the world and the 14th-largest industrial corporation in the nation. In 1973, the first full year the Tower was occupied, Bethlehem Steel set a company record, producing 22.3 million tons of raw steel and shipping 16.3 million tons of finished steel.
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The same article said peak steel output came in 1953, when the company produced 35.8 million tons of steel while steelmakers in Europe and Japan were still struggling to recover from the war.
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