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Anthony Read

Together with Don Houghton, he co-wrote the fifth Sapphire & Steel television story, known informally as Dr McDee Must Die.


1920 Duluth lynchings

U.S. Steel, for instance, the most important regional employer, addressed labor concerns by leveraging African-American laborers, migrants from the South.

A. G. Steel

Steel scored 135 at the Sydney Cricket Ground in a Fourth Test match arranged as an "extra" on that tour, in 1883.

After his schooldays at Marlborough College, where he played cricket superbly, he proceeded to Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Anawalt, West Virginia

It is named in honor of Colonel Anawalt, who was then manager of Union Supply Company, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Company.

Benjamin Franklin Fairless

His roles included President of Central Alloy Steel from 1928 to 1930; First Vice President of Republic Steel (which had absorbed Central Steel) from 1930 to 1935; President of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company from 1935 to 1938; and then President, and later Chairman of the board of directors and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Steel (the largest steel company in the United States) from 1938 to 1955.

BHP Port Kembla D16 class

The D16 class are a class of diesel locomotives built by English Electric, Rocklea for Australian Iron & Steel's, Port Kembla steelworks between 1959 and 1964.

BHP Port Kembla D35 class

The D35 class are a class of diesel locomotives built by English Electric, Rocklea for Australian Iron & Steel's, Port Kembla steelworks between 1971 and 1975.

BHP Port Kembla D9 class

The D9 class were a class of diesel locomotives built by English Electric, Rocklea for Australian Iron & Steel's, Port Kembla steelworks between 1956 and 1960.

Delray Connecting Railroad

Delray Connecting Railroad is owned and operated by Transtar, Inc., the railroad division of U.S. Steel.

Donald A. Martin

Among Martin's most notable work are the proofs of analytic determinacy (from the existence of a measurable cardinal), Borel determinacy (from ZFC alone), the proof (with John R. Steel) of projective determinacy (from suitable large cardinal axioms), and his work on Martin's axiom.

Ensley High School

Ensley High School, located in the Ensley neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama (USA), was founded in 1901 to serve the then-independent community of Ensley, which was centered around major plants operated by U.S. Steel and the American Cast Iron Pipe Company.

Garrison Foundry-Mackintosh Hemphill Company Offices

The plant equipped dozens of mills in the United States and abroad, including U.S. Steel's Homestead Works, which was conceived, designed, constructed and equipped by James Hemphill.

Gary – New Duluth

Both neighborhoods are historically linked to the once vast U.S. Steel plant of the Duluth Works which was once located outside of Gary and in between Morgan Park.

Geri Hall

It was poorly received due to Hall attempting it in the middle of questions on U.S. Steel's decision to shut down several mills.

Ironworker Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust

The program is recognized by the Building & Construction Trades Department, U.S. Steel, Reliant Energy, Toyota and General Motors.

John Steel

John R. Steel, American mathematician at University of California, Berkeley

McKeesport Connecting Railroad Bridge

The bridge connected connected the U.S. Steel Duquesne Works and the National Tube Works in McKeesport and was used by Pennsylvania Union Railroad which is owned and operated by Transtar, Inc., the railroad division of U.S. Steel.

Morgan Park, Duluth, Minnesota

The Morgan Park neighborhood is also known as a planned community built by U.S. Steel to serve its Duluth Works steel plant in the early 1900s.

New South Wales 70 class locomotive

Additional duties for the 70 class were found as shunters in Port Kembla North Yard, transfer workings to the Australian Iron & Steel Exchange sidings at Cringila and even shunting passenger carriages at Wollongong station.

Oliver Hazard Payne

Oliver Hazard Payne (July 21, 1839 – June 27, 1917) was an American businessman, organizer of the American Tobacco trust, and assisted with the formation of U.S. Steel, and was affiliated with Standard Oil.

Republic Steel

In 1927, Cyrus S. Eaton acquired and combined Republic with several other small steel companies, with the goal of becoming large enough to rival U.S. Steel.

Richard Arrington, Jr.

Arrington's father moved his family to the steel-town of Fairfield from rural Sumter County, Alabama when Richard Jr. was five years old to take a job with U.S. Steel.

Robert K. Steel

In 2013, Steel was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.

Robert Steel

Robert K. Steel (born 1951), President and CEO of Wachovia Corporation

SS Mataafa

In 1901, she became a part of the original Pittsburgh Steamship Division of U.S. Steel when the division was formed.

Thanks for the Memory

Marilyn Monroe's performance of "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1962 was followed by an additional verse sung to the tune of "Thanks for the Memory": "Thanks, Mr. President/For all the things you've done/The battles that you've won/The way you deal with U.S. Steel/And our problems by the ton/We thank you so much."

William C. Kortz

Prior to elective office, Kortz served as an Operations Manager for the Irvin Plant of U.S. Steel.


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