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	MARCH::
		MARCH is very pleased to partner with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in the development of an industrial history research initiative for the Mid-Atlantic region, building on MARCH's four years of work with the Bethlehem Steel site.
		The conference is scheduled for June 14-15, 2007, in Bethlehem.
		In 2004, MARCH and the Historic Bethlehem Partnership invited a range of groups and individuals interested in the future of the Bethlehem Steel site to convene in Bethlehem.
	www.march.rutgers.edu /bethSteelJuneconf.htm (794 words)

	Bethlehem Steel bankruptcy background
		Although Bethlehem had accomplished nearly $300 million in net cost reductions since the middle of 1998, the reductions were not enough to overcome the injury caused by record levels of unfairly traded steel imports and the slowing economy.
		Bethlehem also commented that it was developing plans to further reduce its total workforce, and that it would explore participation in consolidation of the highly fragmented domestic steel industry.
		Steel stated that, to be successful, the plan required implementation of President Bush's three-part program to address the excessive imports; creation of a government-sponsored program to provide relief from the industry's retiree legacy cost burden; and negotiation of a progressive new labor agreement.
	www.steelnews.com /companies/chapter11/bethlehem_steel.htm (2183 words)

	Rebuilding Bethlehem Steel
		Trautlein, chairman at Bethlehem for less than four years, was among the first of the nation’s top steel executives to recognize that drastic measures were necessary to jar the American steel industry out of a terminal pattern.
		Bethlehem Steel’s total employment, which stood at 83,800 in 1981, was down to 52,000 by the end of the summer of 1984, a shrinkage of 37.9% in little over two years.
		However, when the Bethlehem plant tried to implement a Trautlein money-saving edict by hiring an outside contractor to reline a blast furnace as recently as last September, the union conducted another protest march, walking the streets with signs proclaiming that the Trautlein policy was taking jobs away from steelworkers.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF0801/Strohmeyer/Strohmeyer.html (3046 words)

	Loss of Safety Net a Blow to Bethlehem Steel Retirees (Site not responding. Last check: )
		BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Some of them went to work in the blast furnaces when they were just 18, then spent half a lifetime handling molten slag and inhaling steel dust in some of the most dangerous jobs on earth.
		But for the tens of thousands of Bethlehem Steel Corp. workers who stuck it out, retirement promised a rich reward: a hefty pension and a lifetime of almost free health care for themselves and their families.
		Only a shadow of its former self, Bethlehem Steel announced Friday that it was seeking Bankruptcy Court approval to terminate health and life insurance benefits for 95,000 retired workers and their dependents March 31.
	www.globalaging.org /pension/us/private/net.htm (775 words)

	Bethlehem Steel files for Chapter 11
		The company, which is based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, listed $4.2 billion of assets and $4.5 billion of debt in its Chapter 11 filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
		Bethlehem Steel is awaiting appointment of a judge to its case and hopes to proceed with filing further documents at hearings on Monday afternoon to get its financing approved, said Jeffrey Tanenbaum, an attorney for the company.
		Bethlehem Steel's two largest shareholders are Greenway Partners, with a 6.2 percent stake, and Dimensional Fund Advisors, with 5.3 percent.
	fleetowner.com /news/fleet_bethlehem_steel_files/index.html (285 words)

	Mesothelioma SOS - Asbestos Exposure at Bethlehem Steel and Shipyards
		Ground was broken at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Bethlehem, PA in 1860 with the plant opening 3 years later in 1863.
		Bethlehem Steel immediately became known for the excellent products it produced and many of the devices and methods used in the steel industry for decades after had their start at this plant.
		The second-largest steel manufacturer in the U.S., Bethlehem Steel was, in the early years, the leading supplier of steel to the construction industry and their methods have been touted as integral to the skyscraper boom of the early 1900s.
	www.mesotheliomasos.com /jobsitesBethlehem.php (339 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Bethlehem Steel Corp. Is No More
		Bethlehem Steel Corp., the company that forged the steel for the Golden Gate Bridge and many of the armaments the nation used to win world wars, ceased to exist yesterday.
		Bethlehem Steel developed the H-beam that forms the skeletons of three-quarters of the buildings on the New York skyline, including the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Madison Square Garden and the Chrysler Building.
		Many Bethlehem retirees were furious and fearful after the loss of their health insurance after the action was announced in March.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A62678-2003Apr30?language=printer (799 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Bethlehem Steel fades away after a century building ships and skyscrapers
		Bethlehem Steel's demise will have a bigger impact on retirees, whose pensions were taken over by a government protection fund Wednesday and whose health benefits are being eliminated.
		Bethlehem Steel was never the country's largest steelmaker, but it was always one of its most influential.
		Bethlehem Steel declared bankruptcy in October of 2001, one of dozens of American steel companies to do so in the past 10 years.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20030430-1433-bethlehemsteel.html (728 words)

	Bethlehem Steel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During its life, Bethlehem Steel was also one of the largest shipbuilding companies in the world and was one of the most powerful symbols of American manufacturing leadership.
		Bethlehem Steel's demise often is cited as one of the most prominent examples of the U.S. economy's transition away from industrial manufacturing and its inability to compete with cheap foreign labor.
		Bethlehem Steel's high point came in the 1950s, as the company began manufacturing some 23 million tons per year, and it built its largest plant, at Burns Harbor, Indiana, between 1962 and 1964.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bethlehem_Steel (1170 words)

	Russell Roberts, Is Bethlehem Steel the Canary in the Economic Mine Shaft?: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Russell Roberts, Is Bethlehem Steel the Canary in the Economic Mine Shaft?: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Bethlehem Steel's work force is less than a tenth of what it was 40 years ago.
		Virtually all of the steel producing nations, even the ones who allegedly dump their steel on U.S. markets, have fewer people making steel than they did 25 years ago.
	www.econlib.org /library/Columns/Robertssteel.html (836 words)

	Bethlehem Steel Corporation
		BETHLEHEM, Pa. - October 15, 2001 - Bethlehem Steel Corporation (NYSE: BS), the second-largest integrated steel manufacturer in the nation, announced today that it has filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
		Bethlehem is seeking protection under Chapter 11 to provide the necessary time to stabilize the Company's finances and to develop and implement a strategic plan to return Bethlehem to sustained profitability.
		Bethlehem Steel Corporation is the nation's second largest integrated steel producer with revenues of about $2.6 billion and shipments of 6.1 million tons of steel products for the first nine months of 2001.
	www.scripophily.net /betsteelcor.html (1441 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bush slaps tariffs on steel imports (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And steel executives and union leaders pleaded to have the government pick up billions in health care and other benefits for 600,000 retirees and their families.
		Big Steel — the integrated mills that use blast furnaces and coke ovens to turn iron ore into steel — has been in a tailspin since a financial crisis swept Asia, Latin America and Russia in 1997.
		The White House is hopeful the steel package will keep steelworkers from using their political clout to help Democrats take control of the House this fall with gains in steel states such as Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio.
	www.usatoday.com /money/covers/2002-03-06-steel.htm (1619 words)

	Bethlehem Steel - Golden Days (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Legend has it that in September 1939 Bethlehem Steel Corp. Chairman Eugene Grace was teeing off at the Saucon Valley Country Club's Old Course when a caddie ran up to his foursome and announced that World War II had just begun.
		Bethlehem Steel is responsible for building the skeletons of many of the most famous bridges and skyscrapers in the country, including the George Washington Bridge and Chrysler Building in New York, and the Ben Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia.
		The only thing that was delivered to the Steel was the sliced bread for the sandwiched." Gawlik spent some of her time waiting on members of the board, which not only had its own dining room, but a separate menu and kitchen staff.
	www.bethlehempaonline.com /steelgolden.html (1532 words)

	MRO Today - Bethlehem Steel gets charge out of high-capacity connectors
		All of Burn Harbor’s steel is continuously being cast in its two slab casters, allowing the plant to yield an annual production capability of over five million tons of steel.
		Consequently, when Bethlehem Steel was looking to improve its overall operation, they decided to start with Burn Harbor’s massive 60,000 pound electric coil carrying tractors.
		Voss Equipment, a material handling distributor, is Bethlehem Steel’s primary provider of their heavy-duty, 60,000 pound coil tractors.
	www.mrotoday.com /mro/archives/exclusives/BethlehemSteel.htm (921 words)

	Online NewsHour: Rebuilding Bethlehem Steel -- August 8, 2001
		A report on efforts in one town to redevelop a steel mill that was once at the center of a company's power and a town's survival.
		ED PAWLOWSKY: I think one of the strong, driving forces for Bethlehem Steel to develop this project has been their commitment to this community, that they're headquartered here in Bethlehem; that there is a large number of executives and former CEO's that still live in the community.
		RAY SUAREZ: As The Steel moves forward with the project, there are plenty of people in Bethlehem pulling for the company and holding their breath.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/business/july-dec01/bethlehem_8-08.html (1999 words)

	Gaboury - Bethlehem Pa. steel
		Bethlehem, a city of 75,000 located about 100 miles north of Philadelphia together with Allentown and Easton, is -- or, at least was -- the industrial heart of the Lehigh Valley, much of it centered around the giant Bethlehem Steel facility.
		Bethlehem Steel traces its corporate lineage to the founding of the Saucona Iron Company in 1857.
		Some of our brothers and sisters from Bethlehem Steel Corp. will be leaving their workplace for the last time during this most joyous time of the year.
	www.pww.org /archives95/95-12-23-3.html (1535 words)

	Save Our Steel
		South Bethlehem is on the brink of a renaissance not seen since before the birth of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
		Bethlehem Steel is like the mascot for Bethlehem, and for those who have lived here all their life, like myself, we are so used to it being there, and find no reason for it to be destroyed.
		A steel mill may not be possible to revitalize in this way but there are many many cities that have eradicated virtually all their historic architecture, replacing it with new but resulting in boring and uninviting spaces that no one goes to, an environment so sterile not even a trendy restaurant can survive.
	www.saveoursteel.org /thepeoplespeak.htm (7391 words)

	Bethlehem Steel net upgrade combines speed, savings
		Bethlehem Steel officials say they slashed $160,000 from the campus-area network's total cost of ownership last year by migrating its backbone from FDDI to Gigabit Ethernet and its local-area networks from Ethernet to Fast Ethernet.
		Bethlehem Steel already leased from AT&T approximately 17 miles of fiber optic cable that snakes around the six mills, steelmaking areas and office buildings located on this 2,300-acre plant.
		Bethlehem Steel wanted to upgrade the network to meet the information-sharing demands brought on by recent modernization efforts here, including construction of the most modern cold sheet mill in North America.
	www.networkworld.com /yourtake/2001/1203yourtakeside.html (1328 words)

	Bethlehem Steel Corp.
		Bethlehem Steel came late to the Chicago area and never made its headquarters there, but it was a leading employer in the area during the last decades of the twentieth century.
		Founded in 1899 in Pennsylvania, Bethlehem Steel expanded rapidly during the 1920s and became the second-largest U.S. steelmaker by the eve of World War II.
		Unlike many other American steel companies, Bethlehem did not operate any large mills in the Chicago region during this period.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2568.html (215 words)

	Bethlehem Steel files Ch. 11 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The nation's third-largest steel company was reeling from five straight quarters of losses blamed on competition from cheaper foreign steel and high labor and retiree-benefit costs.
		Bethlehem Steel Corp. was founded in 1904 by Charles M. Schwab, one of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie's top lieutenants.
		Bethlehem has lost $1.4 billion for the first nine months of the year.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2001/10/16/fin_bethlehem_steel.html (497 words)

	Bethlehem Steel, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 2001
		The spirit within rolling steel of the train, mourns the fate of the mill as its own.
		And when the world again cries out for the legendry honor of America's ability and skill to produce, the folks of Bethlehem will look toward the southern slopes and say, "there in the grave yard, long buried is the salvation for which the world seeks.
		Rolling structural steel with machines long worn out, he would make adjustments inside the hot working mill, (where only he would venture while the mill was running) so to keep from making scrap.
	www.jim-frizzell.com /bethlehem_steel_bethlehem.htm (413 words)

	Bethlehem Steel files for bankruptcy - Oct. 15, 2001
		NEW YORK (CNNmoney) - Bethlehem Steel Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection from creditors Monday, saying that cost-cutting efforts could not make up for the impact of cheap steel imports coupled with a slowing U.S. economy.
		The stocks of Bethlehem and other steelmakers rose on that June announcement, but Bethlehem shares lost 71 percent of their value between that announcement and the close of trading Friday.
		Bethlehem decided to seek bankruptcy protection despite slashing costs by about $300 million since mid-1998, according to its statement.
	money.cnn.com /2001/10/15/companies/bethsteel (1094 words)

	Conversion at Bethlehem: Religion and Union Building in Steel, 1930-42 - Bethlehem Steel Co., Steel Workers Organizing ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Investigating the building of the union at Bethlehem Steel, particularly its home plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, should caution historians against ignoring religion, including Protestantism, as a source of inspiration for the CIO.
		Ramsay was the most important local force for SWOC organizing; he was drawn into union work through the influence of his minister; and his religious convictions sustained him and his group during the years of company opposition and intimidation.
		Bethlehem, however, was not prepared for the depth of the economic collapse it faced.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0348/is_4_39/ai_53474567 (858 words)

	RealEstateJournal \| Bethlehem Steel Site To Begin Development
		Residents of Bethlehem want the ominous landscape and architecture of the bankrupt steel mill integrated into the city while preserving its historic buildings and five massive blast furnaces.
		Bethlehem has bounced back from the demise of its steel industry and now has an unemployment rate of just 5%, with next-wave industries like computer-chip makers and biotech companies prominent among the city's new industries.
		But the redevelopment of the steel site is crucial for the city's future -- it represents 20% of the taxable land in Bethlehem, which has a population of 72,500, Mr.
	www.realestatejournal.com /regionalnews/20041001-chittum.html (479 words)

	Bethlehem Steel on the Block
		However, Bethlehem Steel is different from the LTV situation.
		Pat Gallagher: The steel worker's policy is that we need consolidation to have the strength in the marketplace to get the fair price that our companies need to be profitable and to keep our jobs and job security.
		The Bethlehem facilities are really good and they would have been acquired by somebody at some point.
	www.wcpn.org /news/2003/01-03/0114isg.html (1062 words)

	Bethlehem Steel Chooses Flo-Dar for Industrial Wastewater Monitoring
		Bethlehem Steel Corporation, headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is the nation's second largest integrated steel producer.
		One of Bethlehem Steel's principle locations is the Sparrows Point Division located on the Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore, Maryland.
		Accurate measurement of this wastewater is important for Bethlehem Steel as they provide on-site treatment before discharging the flow into the Chesapeake Bay - one of the region's most important waterways.
	www.marsh-mcbirney.com /Articles/bethlehem_steel.htm (511 words)

	Bethlehem Steel Company (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On April 17th, 1899, the Bethlehem Steel Company was incorporated with a larger capital stock, which was taken pro rata by the shareholders of the Bethlehem Iron Company, and the business was thereafter carried on in the name of the Bethlehem Steel Company.
		This tool steel was first exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1900, and astonishing results in speeds of cutting steel were publicly demonstrated.
		Started when South Bethlehem was a village, and continuing in growth, under careful management to the present day when it occupies a large space of ground in the town that has now reached nearly the 25,000 mark in population.
	www.bethlehempaonline.com /bethsteel.html (2126 words)

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