WordNet
n. the industry that makes steel and steel products
Usage examples of "steel industry".
At the turn of the century the black workers in the steel industry were originally housed in the Top Location, but as conditions there became totally inadequate and outmoded, a new location was set aside for them in the early 1940s and named after John Sharpe, the mayor for the time being of the town of Vereeniging.
Similarly, the United States Steel Corporation's dominance of the steel industry half a century ago would have been eroded with or without the Sherman Act.
Early on, he discovered 'The Sheffield Connection' in the Pittsburgh crucible steel industry, but the only decent sources available for deep background were dusty nineteenth-century books not found in the United States.
While nominally high tech, the steel industry market was the principal one in the United States in 1889-1893.
Changnon's study surveyed weather conditions in La Porte from 1901-65 and showed a dramatic increase in unpleasant weather conditions starting around 1925, roughly corresponding with the growth in productivity of the Chicago-Gary iron and steel industry.
They will observe that the GNP was rising, interest rates were falling, the steel industry was having a profitable year, the insurance business was in a slump, the White Sox were in the cellar, and the President's Aunt Matilda had a cold.
It was a major producer of armaments for the Union during the Civil War, and subsequently grew to become the center of the steel industry through the 1960s.