It’s difficult to conjure a Pennsylvanian in the mind’s eye, to extract a cultural essence. Pennsylvania is a cipher. It is not appreciably part of a region — not the ...
much of the country – from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Chrysler Building – was built with steel forged in Pittsburgh or Bethlehem. The Pennsylvania Railroad was “The Standard Railroad of ...
The park has a connection not only to the old bridge but also to the history of steel production in San Francisco — the waterfront site was once part of Bethlehem Steel ... train platform for the ...
The Trump campaign has made an audacious play for the fast-growing Puerto Rican and Dominican population in eastern ...
In the 1980s, he undertook an intensive study of blue-collar life and the business history of Baltimore’s then-largest employer, Bethlehem Steel, which resulted in the now classic “Making Steel.” ...
In 1937 a lumbering, leftish ex-newspaperman named Ferdinand Lundberg decided to give form to his favorite gripe: big, fat capitalists and their de facto control of our de jure Government.
Bethlehem earned ... Eastern railroads had no cheer at all to offer stockholders. The Pennsylvania, taking a double blow from sagging steel shipments and a 12-day strike, lost $4.5 million in ...