Corporations: Thunder in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city with a head of steam, a heart of steel and one subject on its tongue. The steel chieftains ponder it in their exclusive Duquesne Club; the middle managers anxiously debate it in the Bar D'Or at the Penn-Sheraton Hotel; the mill hands chew it along with pretzels and pistachios in beery saloons from Ambridge to Donora. The subject: the change that is coming over the United States Steel Corp. Behind the closed doors of its executive suites, the world's largest steelmaker is shaking through the greatest reorganization in modern U.S. business. On July 1...

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