Bethlehem Steel: History pg2

	1930 - Bethlehem enters the Pacific Coast market with the acquisition of steel plants in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. 1931 - Bethlehem acquires McClintic-Marshall Corp., a major fabricator and erector of bridges and buildings. During the decade, Bethlehem fabricates the steelwork for such landmark structures as the Golden Gate Bridge, George Washington Bridge, Rockefeller Plaza, Waldorf-Astoria, Chicago Merchandise Mart and the U.S. Supreme Court.
	1939 - C.M. Schwab dies. Position of chairman of the board is permanently retired.
	1941 - United States enters World War II, and Bethlehem operations shift to all-out war production of steel plate for ships and tanks, structural steel for defense plants and forgings for guns, shells and aircraft engines. Bethlehem's 15 shipyards build 1,121 ships, more than any other shipbuilder in World War II. At peak of production, Bethlehem employs almost 300,000 people, 180,000 of them in shipbuilding. 1945 - E.G. Grace elected chairman. Bethlehem begins programs to expand capacity to meet post-war demand for steel.
	1957 - Bethlehem employs 165,000 people, a post-World-War-II high. 1958 - Bethlehem's annual steelmaking capacity reaches 23 million tons, almost double the 12.9 million tons of the mid-1940s. 1959 - Homer Reasearch Laboratories open to produce new products such as quenched and tempered plate, tin-free steel and new generations of coated steel sheets. 1960 - Arthur B. Homer, head of Bethlehem's WWII shipbuilding program, is elected chairman. 1962 - Bethlehem announces it will build a major integrated steel plant in Burns Harbor, Ind., the most ambitious single project in its history to produce sheet and plate steel for the fast-growing midwest market. Today, Burns Harbor is Bethlehem's largest, most efficient plant with 5.3 million tons of capacity. 1964 - Edmund F. Martin is elected chairman. The Burns Harbor plant begins production, and Bethlehem's first basic oxygen furnaces begin steelmaking at Lackawanna.