It wasn’t a smooth path to center stage for the blast furnaces. Bethlehem ... after Steel declared bankruptcy and the property was open to potential buyers, some feared many developers would ...

At its peak, Bethlehem Steel ... jobs were grueling. Meitzler joked about how many times his beard caught fire. And Hawkey talked about how, despite working in 120-degree heat at the furnaces ...

One of the biggest postwar bugaboos to U.S. business has been: How will the U.S. dispose of its more than $15,000,000,000 worth of Federally owned war plants? Last week, Bethlehem Steel Corp. took ...

Encouraged by the seemingly inexhaustible demand for the semi-finished product, every little iron company that owns a blast furnace ... plus Bethlehem and all the Eastern Pennsylvania steel ...

John Pearce talks with Steven and John Landis about their book Bethlehem Steel: Rusting Relic, including stunning history and ...