Thursday, August 20, 2015

The end of an era.

I don't recall where I read it, but I do remember that Birmingham turned out more steel during World War II for the defense effort than Pittsburgh. All the more reason to note with sadness this milestone: "U.S. Steel to permanently shutter Fairfield blast furnace."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The greenies can add another trophy to their mantel, don't ya know!

Would they be closing down if projects like the Keystone pipeline was to go a head?

Josh said...

This will do our enemies well in the next big war.

ag42b said...

1,900 American jobs lost permanently overseas to "portfolio optimization", business weasel words. What jerks. Now, the South is losing jobs. What next?