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  2. Walkersteel - Wikipedia

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    The company was sold to British Steel plc in 1989 for a fee in excess of £300million - which helped fund Jack Walker's takeover of Blackburn Rovers in early 1991. By this time, the steel company was achieving profits worth close to £50million a year, though the onset of the recession saw the steel market suffer a major slump.

  3. Steel strike of 1959 - Wikipedia

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    At the time, US Steel was a highly profitable and workers felt their wages should be increased. Intense bargaining ensued, and federal officials, including John Snyder the Reconversion Director and Charles Bowles from the Price Administration, attempted to broker an agreement by freezing steel prices at $2.40 a ton in the hopes of taming inflation.

  4. April 1962 - Wikipedia

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    The United Steel Workers of America and steel manufacturers agreed to a new contract, brokered by the U.S. Department of Labor, in which the union reduced its demands for a wage increase from 17 cents to 10 cents an hour, based upon the White House's determination to hold down prices. Four days later, the steel makers raised their prices anyway.

  5. History of the iron and steel industry in the United States

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    The American Steel Industry, 1850–1970: A Geographical Interpretation (1973) (ISBN 0198232144) Whaples, Robert. "Andrew Carnegie", EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History online; U.S. Steel's History of U.S. Steel; Urofsky, Melvin I. Big Steel and the Wilson Administration: A Study in Business-Government Relations (1969) Spiegel ...

  6. 1946 United States steel strike - Wikipedia

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    The 1946 US steel strike was a several months long strike of 750,000 steel workers of the United Steelworkers union. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was a part of larger wave of labor disputes, known as the US strike wave of 1945–1946 after the end of World War II , and remains the largest strike in US history.

  7. 1952 steel strike - Wikipedia

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    Egan, Charles E. "Wilson Weighing Steel Price Rises". The New York Times. March 23, 1952. "11% Cut in Steel for Civilians Goods Scheduled for '52". The New York Times. October 13, 1951. "$5.60 Steel Price Rise Reported Offered". The New York Times. July 16, 1952. "Foes of Union Shop Assail Wage Body". The New York Times. March 9, 1952.

  8. History of tariffs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The tariff represented a complex balance of forces. Railroads, for example, consumed vast quantities of steel. To the extent tariffs raised steel prices, they paid much more making possible the U.S. steel industry's massive investment to expand capacity and switch to the Bessemer process and later to the open hearth furnace. Between 1867 and ...

  9. Steel crisis - Wikipedia

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    The steel crisis was a recession in the global steel market during the 1973–1975 recession and early 1980s recession following the post–World War II economic expansion and the 1973 oil crisis, further compounded by the 1979 oil crisis, and lasted well into the 1980s.