The story of Pittsburgh: Iron and steel (continued)

Iron and steel (continued) (Vol. 1, nr. 3)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831622939

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239748

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Iron and steel (continued)

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 3

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1920

Scope:: [ca. 34] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Iron and Steel

Collection:: Economics Books

The Story of Pittsburgh Iron and Steel HE interest in the publication of the recent booklet on Iron and Steel has been so wide- spread, and the demand for further information has been so general that the First National Bank at Pittsburgh feels obliged to continue its discussion of this subject, in its recital of the “Story of Pittsburgh,” before proceeding with other diversified products of this city and the community indus- trially and financially dependent upon this metropolis. It is estimated that the normal annual value of the manufactured product of the Pittsburgh district reaches the large total of $1,250,000,000. During the period in which the United States took part in the great world war, this was largely increased. This community in normal times gives employment to more than 110,000 men in its steel works and blast furnaces, and to probably 80,000 more in other industries enumerated under the head of “Iron and Steel.” For the handling of materials—coke, iron ore and limestone—entering into the production of pig iron in the Pittsburgh district, 88,000 freight trains, with an average load of 3,400 gross tons apiece, are required every 12 months. From statistics collected by the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce and the American Iron and Steel Institute these figures have been compiled: In the Pittsburgh dis- trict the output of pig iron in 1918 exceeded 11,000,000 tons, more than 809, of the entire production of the United States, and 1,000,000 tons more than the combined product of Canada, France, Sweden and Spain in the pre- war period. The district’s production of finished rolled

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