Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Eugene Gifford Grace (August 27, 1876 – July 25, 1960) [1] was the president of Bethlehem Steel from 1916 to 1945, and chairman of the board from 1945 until his retirement in 1957. He also served as president of the American Iron and Steel Institute , and sat on the board of trustees for Lehigh University .
Bethlehem Steel is just one of several U.S. companies to have sourced iron from Latin America. Bethlehem Steel held a presence in Latin America for roughly a century (1880s - 1980s). [12] As such, the company profited greatly from the United States’ economic control over the region.
He was CEO of Bethlehem Steel when decisions were made to end steel operations at the Bethlehem Plant on the 1800-acre tract of land in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Barnette was a leader, along with others, through public-private efforts, to cause the preservation of the Bethlehem Plant Site as the largest Brownfield Redevelopment in America ...
The Men Who Built America (also known as The Innovators: The Men Who Built America in some international markets) is an eight-hour, four-part miniseries docudrama which was originally broadcast on the History Channel in autumn 2012, and on the History Channel UK in fall 2013.
With these designs, Bethlehem Iron built the first plant to forge high-strength steel in the United States. The plant fabricated armor plates and guns for warships . Similar contracts gave the company, renamed the Bethlehem Steel Company, a consistent source of income, and Wharton made slow but steady profits.
The answer to this question demands a bit of investigative work, ... and Bethlehem Steel, the rig's builder, predicted that this deeper seafloor region would require at least 100 more rigs like Mr ...
Articles and categories related to notable people once affiliated with Bethlehem Steel, headquartered at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Pages in category "Bethlehem Steel people" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total.
Large integrated steel mills were built in Chicago, Detroit, Gary, Indiana, Cleveland, and Buffalo, New York, to handle the Lake Superior ore. Cleveland's first blast furnace was built in 1859. In 1860, the steel mill employed 374 workers. By 1880, Cleveland was a major steel producer, with ten steel mills and 3,000 steelworkers. [10]