Examples of pig iron in the following topics:
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- Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry, controlling the most extensive integrated iron and steel operations ever owned by an individual in the United States.
- Sir Henry Bessemer had invented the furnace which allowed the high carbon content of pig iron to be burnt away in a controlled and rapid way.
- In the late 1880s, Carnegie Steel was the largest manufacturer of pig iron, steel rails, and coke in the world, with a capacity to produce approximately 2,000 tons of pig metal per day.
- In 1888, Carnegie bought the rival Homestead Steel Works, which included an extensive plant served by tributary coal and iron fields, a 425-mile long railway, and a line of lake steamships.
- Edgar Thomson Steel Works, (named for John Edgar Thomson, Carnegie's former boss and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad), Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Works, the Lucy Furnaces, the Union Iron Mills, the Union Mill (Wilson, Walker & County), the Keystone Bridge Works, the Hartman Steel Works, the Frick Coke Company, and the Scotia ore mines.
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- The colony also became a major producer of pig iron and its products, including the Pennsylvania long rifle and the Conestoga wagon.
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- A synergy between iron and steel, railroads and coal developed at the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution.
- Air blown through holes in the converter bottom creates a violent reaction in the molten pig iron that oxidizes the excess carbon, converting the pig iron to pure iron or steel, depending on the residual carbon.
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- The colony also became a major producer of pig iron and its products, including the Pennsylvania long rifle and the Conestoga wagon.
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- After landing at the Bay of Pigs on the Cuban coast, these insurgents, the CIA believed, would inspire their countrymen to rise up and topple Castro’s regime.
- The Bay of Pigs invasion was a major foreign policy disaster for President Kennedy and highlighted Cuba’s military vulnerability to the Castro administration.
- A year after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the Soviet Union sent troops and technicians to Cuba to strengthen its new ally against further U.S. military plots.
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- Some of the most notable events that stemmed from tenets of JFK's foreign policy initiatives in regard to containing the threat of communism were the Kennedy Doctrine, the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and the ratification of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
- On April 17, 1961, Kennedy ordered what became known as the "Bay of Pigs Invasion:" 1,500 U.S.
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- The Steel Strike of 1919 was an attempt by the weakened Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (the AA) to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I.
- It was a union of skilled iron and steel workers which was deeply committed to craft unionism.
- The American Federation of Labor (AFL) began organizing unskilled iron and steel workers into federal unions in 1901.
- To encourage more organizing, the AFL formed a National Committee for Organizing the Iron and Steel Workers.
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- A cartoon of Uncle Sam seated in restaurant looking at the bill of fare containing "Cuba steak," "Porto Rico pig," the "Philippine Islands" and the "Sandwich Islands" (Hawaii) and saying "Well, I hardly know which to take first!
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- Sheep, pigs, horses, and cattle were all Old World animals that were introduced to contemporary American Indians.
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- This Harper's Weekly cartoon (1877), depicting civil service as it was under Andrew Jackson, shows President Jackson riding a giant pig; the words, "bribery," "fraud," "spoils," and "plunder," as well as the phrase, "To the victors belong the spoils.