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Where did Bethlehem Steel come from?

Bethlehem Steel's roots trace to an iron-making company organized in 1857 in Bethlehem, which was later named the Bethlehem Iron Company. In 1899, the owners of the iron company founded Bethlehem Steel Company and, five years later, Bethlehem Steel Corporation was created to be the steelmaking company's corporate parent.

When did Bethlehem Steel become a company?

In 1917, it incorporated its shipbuilding division as Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd. In 1922, Bethlehem Steel purchased the Lackawanna Steel Company, which included the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and extensive coal holdings.

Was Bethlehem Steel a profitable company during WW1?

Highly esteemed in the US, Bethlehem Steel's production of munitions is attacked in this German propaganda broadsheet from World War I. World War I proved to be an intensely profitable time for Bethlehem Steel, turning the company into one of the largest in the world.

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