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On June 17, U.S. Shipbuilding is incorporated. Bethlehem Steel thrives ... buying Pacific Coast Steel Co. and Southern California Iron & Steel Co., which had plants in Seattle, San Francisco ...
The pool of potential buyers of Bethlehem Steel Corp.’s Sparrows Point shipyard has been narrowed to two, and the yard’s new owner could be named as early as today, several sources said yesterday.
In Bethlehem Steel’s San Francisco shipyard, dungareed workmen bustled about under a towering new ship, greasing ways and loosening chocks. Then, as a whistle signaled, a bottle of California ...
Nationwide, Bethlehem Steel’s employment swelled to 283,765, including about 25,000 women, at the company’s mines, railroads, shipyards, fabricators and other steel plants. Their work could ...
Bethlehem Steel owned the shipyard until 1997, when it sold the land to Baltimore Marine, which in turn sold it to SPS in 2004. The reunification of the shipyard with the rest of Sparrows Point ...
Collins served as vice president of shipbuilding for Bethlehem Steel in the early1940s. At the time, Bethlehem Steel was looking for additional shipbuilding sites to support the war effort.
Sparrows Point provided materials for the nearby Sparrows Point shipyard, also owned by Bethlehem Steel. During World War II, Bethlehem Steel built 1,127 ships as CEO Eugene Grace promised ...
As president of BethShip Inc., Dave Watson saw two deals to sell the Bethlehem Steel Corp. Sparrows Point shipyard fall apart. Twice, when those deals died, his bosses said they would close the ...
Foster Wheeler LLC cannot pin on Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point Shipyard the fatal disease a man allegedly contracted during his 30 years working at the Baltimore-area yard that used asbestos ...