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  U.S. Steel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Corporation, as it was known on Wall Street, always distinguished itself to investors by virtue of its size rather than for its efficiency or creativeness during its heyday.
The Supreme Court of the United States blocked that ruling that the President did not have the constitutional authority to seize the mills.
U.S. Steel maintained the anti-labor policies of Andrew Carnegie, who had destroyed the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers union that represented his employees at the Homestead, Pennsylvania plant after a large strike in 1892.
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 United States Steel Corporation - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The United States Steel Corporation (NYSE:X), later named USX Corporationin 1991, then renamed the United States Steel Corporation again in 2001 when the shareholders of USX spun off the steelmaking assets of the company after its acquisition ofMarathon Oil, was once the largest steel producer and largest corporation in the world.
The Corporation, as it was known on Wall Street, always distinguisheditself for its size, rather than for its efficiency or creativeness, during its heyday.
U.S. Steel acquired Marathon Oil in 1982 and Texas Oil and Gas several years later.The corporation found itself at the end of the century deriving almost all of its revenue and all of its net income from itsenergy operations.
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 Steel
Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material.
The crucible steel process remained an relatively expensive technique in both time and fuel, and could not be used in any sort of modern industrial scale, although the strong steels produced were in high demand for specialty products such as cutlery and weapons.
Damascus steel, which was famous in ancient times for its flexibility, was created from a number of different materials (some only in traces), essentially a complicated alloy with iron as main component.
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 Corporation - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A corporation (usually known in the United Kingdom and Ireland as a company) is a legal entity (distinct from a natural person) that often has similar rights in law to those of a natural person.
Corporations receive a charter from a state, and become regulated by the laws enacted by that state.
In the United States several corporate forms exist; the name of "corporation" generally applies to a business, run for profit, to which one of the states of the United States (or other governmental body with that power, including Congress and Puerto Rico) has granted a corporate charter.
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 United States Steel Corporation -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is still the largest integrated steel producer in the United States, although it produces only slightly more steel than it did in 1902 and its steel holdings are actually worth less today than its capitalization in 1901.
The Corporation, as it was known on (A street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance) Wall Street, always distinguished itself for its size, rather than for its efficiency or creativeness, during its heyday.
U.S. Steel's production peaked at more than 35 million (A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds) tons in 1953; its employment was greatest during World War II in 1943, when it had more than 340,000 employees.
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 United States Steel Corporation
The United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=X)), later named USX Corporation in 1991, then renamed the United States Steel Corporation again in 2001 when the shareholders of USX spun off the steelmaking assets of the company after its acquisition of Marathon Oil, was once the largest steel producer and largest corporation in the world.
The Corporation, as it was known on Wall Street, always distinguished itself for its size, rather than for its efficiency or creativeness, during its heyday.
The steel industry has likewise sought to spur the federal government to take action to counteract dumping of steel by foreign producers, that is, sale at less than the cost of production made possible by subsidies from those steel producers' governments.
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 United States Steel Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=X)) is an integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States and Central Europe.
Morgan and founded U.S. Steel in 1901 (incorporated on February 25) by combining the steel operations owned by Andrew Carnegie with their holdings in the Federal Steel Company.
The long decline of the United States steel industry had began.
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 251 U.S. 417
Held, that the power attained by the United States Steel Corporation, much greater than that of any one competitor, but not greater than that possessed by them all, did not constitute it a monopoly.
Purpose and effect of the Steel Corporation's acquisition of control of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, considered, in the light of President Roosevelt's prior approval of the transaction and his testimony concerning it.
United States, 221 U.S. ; and United States v.
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 About United States Steel Corporation
Steel is also involved in a number of other businesses, among them transportation (Transtar, Inc.), real estate development, technology licensing and engineering and consulting services (UEC Technologies LLC [UEC]), and leasing and financial services.
Many of the corporation's divisions were related to or grew out of the company's original steel operations.
The plan resulted in the tax-free spin-off of the steel and steel-related businesses of USX into a freestanding, publicly traded company known as United States Steel Corporation -- the name of the corporation when it was established a century earlier.
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 United States Steel Corporation --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At the beginning of the 20th century, a number of businessmen were involved in the formation of United States Steel Corporation, including Andrew Carnegie, Elbert H. Gary, Charles M. Schwab, and J.P. Morgan.
Japanese corporation created by the 1970 merger of Yawata Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., and Fuji Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. It ranks among the world's largest steel corporations.
In 1787 the Constitution of the United States was drafted at Philadelphia.
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The Indiana Steel Company was a subsidiary of the Illinois Steel Company, which was a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation (U. Steel).
Steel had purchased 9,000 acres on Lake Michigan in Indiana in 1905 for a new steel plant and townsite.
This ambiguity may have arisen from the fact that the  United States Steel Corporation operated plants in the Chicago area under the name Illinois Steel Company.
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 United States Steel Corporation - Company Profile - Computer Business Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
United States Steel Corporation is the second largest integrated steel producer in North America and has a broad and diverse mix of products and customers.
The US-based United States Steel Corporation (USSC) is engaged in manufacturing and selling a range of steel sheet, plate, tubular and tin products, coke, and taconite pellets.
The US Steel Kosice segment includes the company's integrated steel mill located in the Slovak Republic, a production facility in Germany, operations under facility management and support agreements in Serbia; and equity investees, mostly in Central Europe.
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 United States Steel Corporation Reports 2004 Third Quarter Results : Business News Onlypunjab.com- Home Finance And ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Income from operations in the third quarter of 2004 was $494 million, $106 million higher than in the second quarter of 2004, and dramatically improved from the large loss in the third quarter of 2003, which included workforce reduction charges of $618 million.
Steel's reportable segments and Other Businesses generated segment income from operations of $570 million, or $108 per ton, in the third quarter of 2004, compared with $454 million, or $82 per ton, in the second quarter of 2004 and a loss of $9 million, or $2 per ton, in the third quarter of 2003.
Steel contributed $70 million to its main defined benefit pension plan during the third quarter, and ended the quarter with over $1 billion in cash and cash equivalents and about $2 billion of total liquidity.
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 51 Wn.2d 224, UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, Respondent
I, § 8, of the United States constitution was denied in B. Goodrich Co. v.
Because some other state might exercise its undoubted right to tax the privilege of manufacture with respect to goods ultimately sold in Washington [citing cases], this state need not forego its right to tax the business of selling those goods.
The sales are negotiated within the state of Washington, and the fact that delivery is made direct to the purchaser does not change the nature of the local transaction.
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 Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001
Though by 1900 the United States ranked as the greatest steel-producing nation, the leaders of its major firms despaired of achieving financial success to match their industry's stature.
Big Steel is Kenneth Warren's attempt to narrate the chief events at US Steel and to explain the almost continual decline in its share of the national market.
Second, executives at US Steel remained arrogant about the superiority of American techniques, even though by the 1950s capacity was expanding much more rapidly abroad, giving foreign producers more opportunity to experiment with new methods.
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 NEW Guidelines for Use of COR-TEN Steel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
steel sheet products should not be sold when the intended use is for an architectural application, such as roofing and siding.
Steel reforms after abrasion from snow, ice, sand, dirt and hail.
Steel is totally recyclable and has a high recycled content, it has very low solar reflectivity
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 Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP | The Firm | History
Much of the Firm's work in the 1970’s related to railroad reorganization cases, particularly the representation of a group of insurance companies that were bondholders of the Penn Central Railroad.  The Firm sought to have legislation under which the assets of Penn Central were transferred to Conrail declared unconstitutional.
One especially noteworthy “friendly” takeover deal the Firm handled was the 1983 acquisition of the Weirton Steel Division of the National Steel Company by its own plant workers to avoid a shutdown of that division and loss of their jobs.
Benito Romano, former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (and a former Willkie associate) rejoined the Firm to head its white collar crime practice.
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 AK Steel
AK Steel produces flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steel products, as well as carbon and stainless tubular steel products, for automotive, appliance, construction and manufacturing markets.
AK Steel maintains a relentless pursuit of improvement in every critical performance measure.
AK Steel: Few months to decide fate of jobs.
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 Wildlife Habitat Council - Three Rivers Habitat Partnership
As a founding member of the Wildlife Habitat Council, United States Steel has been a strong proponent of habitat projects.
In 1993, an innovative partnership was formed between United States Steel, the Baldwin-Whitehall School District, and the community.
United States Steel, students and teachers, community members, and local merchants have all contributed time, labor, and funding to enhance the existing wetland and add a trail and pavilion.
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 Powers, Francis Gary --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Soviet intelligence officer, convicted in the United States in 1957 for conspiring to transmit military secrets to the Soviet Union.
In 1906 the town (named for Elbert H. Gary, chief organizer of the United States Steel Corporation) was laid out as an adjunct of the company's vast new manufacturing complex.
During the period between 1946 and 1962, the nature of this new conflict emerged as the United States and its Western allies became embroiled in a battle against the Soviet Union and the specter of...
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 United States Steel Corporation (USS) - Jobs, Corp Human Resources (HR) Recruiting Information: Vault   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The company has "an unbeatable bonus system," and the benefits at USX are "superb." Furthermore, the company pays full medical and dental insurance, and offers "a 401(k) plan with matching everything." USX also has its own credit union, which offers "competitive rates on loans and mortgages," and a tuition reimbursement program.
United States Steel Corporation employee surveys are collected by Vault editors, Vault Gold Surveys provide detailed information on specific employers.
US Steel acquired the assets of a bankrupt steel company and decid...
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 United States Steel Corporation - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
Steel crazy after all these years, Pittsburgh-based United States Steel (U.S. Steel, formerly USX-U.S. Steel Group) is the nation's #2 integrated steelmaker (behind Mittal Steel USA).
The company's customers are primarily in the automotive, construction, petrochemical, and steel service center industries.
There are 26 competitors for United States Steel; see more.
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 2003 Award for Corporate Excellence: United States Steel Corporation
It is truly an honor to accept the Secretary of State's Award for Corporate Excellence in recognition of U.S. Steel's activities in the Slovak Republic.
U.S. Steel Kosice is proud of what it has accomplished in eastern Slovakia, and we look forward with great anticipation to the future.
The companies that we have recognized today -- and, in fact, all of the companies that were nominated for this year's Secretary of State's Award for Corporate Excellence, have done a tremendous amount of good in their communities this year.
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 United States Steel Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The current incarnation of U.S. Steel was formed in 2001, when USX split into two separate companies, U.S. Steel and Marathon Oil.
U.S. Steel's primary steel operations are: Gary Works in Gary, Indiana; Fairfield Works near Birmingham, Alabama; Mon Valley Works, which includes the Edgar Thomson and Irvin plants, near Pittsburgh; East Chicago Tin in East Chicago, Indiana; and U.S. Steel Kosice in the Slovak Republic.
In addition to steel, the company is involved in businesses including coal mining; mineral resources management; transportation; real estate development; technology licensing, engineering, and consulting; and leasing and financial services.
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 1948 United States Steel Corporation
U.S. Steel had its origins in the dealings of some of America's most legendary businessmen, including Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and Charles Schwab.
In the decades that followed, the corporation consolidated its various steel making and raw material subsidiaries and divisions through a series of reorganizations.
In 1986, in recognition of the fact that it had become a vastly different corporation, U. Steel Corporation became USX Corporation, with principal operating units involved in energy, steel and diversified businesses.
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 United States Steel Corporation communique ses résultats du deuxième trimestre 2002
United States Steel Corporation communique ses résultats du deuxième trimestre 2002
Pour le deuxième trimestre 2002, U. Steel a déclaré un bénéfice net de 27 millions $, ou 0,28 $ par action, en tenant compte des effets positifs nets des éléments inhabituels, lesquels, après impôts, ont contribué à augmenter le bénéfice net de 10 millions $, ou 0,10 $ par action.
En avril, U. Steel a annoncé la signature d'une lettre d'intention concernant la vente de charbon et d'autres actifs connexes liés aux mines de la U. Steel Mining Company en Virginie occidentale et en Alabama.
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