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In reading my April edition of Civil Engineering for once, I found a most interesting article on the Bethlehem Steel Mill in Eastern Pennsylvania.
"Founded in 1857 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and shutter in 2003, Bethlehem Steel was once one of the largest steel producers and shipbuilders in the United States. It remains a symbol of American manufacturing. Steel from the Bethlehem furnaces helped to build such renowned structures as New York City's Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center, the Golden Gate Bridge, Chicago's Merchandise Mart, the George Washington Bridge, Hoover Dam, and the federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay.
The Company's roots date to 1857 with the founding of the Saucona Iron Company. Development at the Bethlehem site commenced in 1860 with the construction of the first furnace and rolling mill. In 1873 the plant adopted the Bessemer steel process, and by the 1880s it had added a heavy forging plant, focusing its production on rails for the railroad industry and armor plates for the U.S. Navy. It took on the name Bethlehem Steel Company in 1904, continued to expand through the early part of the 20th century, branched out into shipbuilding, and started making such structural steel shapes as I beams. During the two world wars, Bethlehem Steel was a major supplier for the U.S. Navy. During World War II it had 15 shipyards in operation, built 1,121 ships, and carried out repairs on 38,000 vessels. After the wars, it supplied steel for the construction industry, reaching peak production in 1973, when it produced 22.3 million tons of raw steel and 16.3 million tons of finished steel........."
"The former Bethlehem Steel site now includes an arts center, a music pavilion, and a casino, and the new walkway connects and highlights these attractions."
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Boy, I guess that will teach the rest of the world to mess with our steel industry!
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True then, but now China is probably the largest steel maker, but not quality?, while Nucor, etc. transforms scrap into our steel.
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"Bethlehem Steel was a major supplier for the U.S. Navy. During World War II it had 15 shipyards in operation, built 1,121 ships, and carried out repairs on 38,000 vessels." Now, that is impressive, to build 1121 ships in a 6 year period. "Boy, I guess that will teach the rest of the world to mess with our steel industry!" Or, our labor unions, eh?  SRH
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Where is this facility in "Eastern Pennsylvania"? I hunted for years on Bethlehem property in Hanover/McSherrystown. My Dad and I killed a small railroad car full of ringnecks, doves, and mallards off that property, sometimes hunting all three on the same day.
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Part of the issue with foreign steel is that many of the companies are government owned, fully subsidized operations that can run at full capacity and dump their product around the world at less than cost.
Recently, the US has added tariffs to address the illegal dumping of steel.
The results have been a nice return on US steel producer's stocks over the last couple of months and the consistent dividends aren't bad either.
With so much of manufacturing moving overseas, it will be tough to return to the previous levels of production.
There are still steel companies doing the exact same things, just at a level that matches demand.
Not sure what this has to do with double guns though.
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Bethlehem Steel was 1st the source of Steel for Winchester and then when WWI disrupted the sourcing lines to Belgium, Bethlehem, and others, filled the void and established inland sourcing lines.
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City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem,_Pennsylvania
East of Allentown.
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Winchester Nickel Steel was sourced from Bethlehem Steel Co. “Report of Heat Treatment of Barrel Steel Rolling”, 1902. http://books.google.com/books?id=YzhUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA181&lpg and Midvale Steel Co. George Madis, The Winchester Book"Nickel steel barrels for the .32/40 and .38/55 calibers Winchester 1894 were available after 1895 as a special order option. The barrels were stamped “M.N.S.” (Midvale Nickel Steel)." I do not know the source for Winchester Standard Ordnance Steel
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Several observations....
Plenty, probably thousands of guns were still being made with imported barrels after the beginning of WWI.
Not sure how that would involve Winchester double guns.
Seems that some of this information leads to doubts of the testimony of Thomas Hunter....
but we all know how people never speak between the lines in front of congress...
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