INSIDE BETHLEHEM STEEL

For nearly its entire existence - from its incorporation in December 1904 until its sale in May 2003 - Bethlehem Steel Corporation was the second-largest steel company in the United States of America. During its life, it also was a large, worldwide company engaged in the extraction of raw materials and, in the years of World War II, the world's largest shipbuilder... In the heydays of the 1910s through the 1960s, Bethlehem Steel produced the steel and erected such American iconic structures as New York City's Madison Square Garden, Lincoln Tunnel, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Chrysler Building, and George Washington Bridge. Elsewhere in the United States, employees made and fabricated the steel for San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge; Chicago's Merchandise Mart; the Virginia Bay Bridge Tunnel; Los Angeles' City Hall; and Washington, D.C.'s U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Congress' Rayburn buildings. During the 1910s and 1920s, Bethlehem also bought steelmaking facilities and coal reserves in..