The latest installment in "Jim Duncan's Austin" tells short histories of three of the city's iron and steel businesses ...
“My father always told me businessmen were sons of bitches, but I didn’t believe him until now.” - President John F. Kennedy to his aides during the steel crisis of April, 1962. “We’re not in business ...
Historian Ric A. Dias, author of the recently published book “Kaiser Steel of Fontana: Together We Build,” has several presentations planned in the Inland Empire about the book and the Kaiser Steel ...
Steel and strength are two words that often go together. But while often used in the context of its properties as a building material – steel is roughly 1,000 times stronger than raw iron – the ...
Twin grails that changed U.S. history—a pair of steel, moldboard plows crafted in the flesh by the hands of John Deere and bought directly from the American titan’s Illinois shop in 1839 and 1840—sit ...
This is a portion of US Steel's Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock, Pa., on Sunday, Apr., 28, 2024. President Joe Biden blocked the $15 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan's Nippon Steel on Friday ...