U.S. Steel (NYSE: X) is one of the world's oldest companies. Founded in 1901, it was known simply as "The Corporation". Thanks to its long history as one of the United States' premier industrial ...

“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 ...

They used to call it Bonus Hill. That was section of Bethlehem’s Prospect Avenue where Bethlehem Steel executives, made rich by the bonuses they acquired from the booming industry that employed them, ...

The history of the steel industry in America can’t be written without Southwestern Pennsylvania. Sure, iron was mined and smelted before Andrew Carnegie built his first mill here in 1875. It was even ...

1984: LTV Corp. buys Republic Steel Corp. and combines Republic Steel plants with its own Jones & Laughlin to form LTV Steel. 1986: LTV files for Chapter 11 protection from creditors. 1990: U.S.

President Donald Trump's threat of tariffs on imported steel and aluminum has some native appeal in Pennsylvania, where about one in seven of the nation's steel workers reside. American producers, the ...