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Carnegie Steel Mill and Furnaces, New Castle, PA.
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1930
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Country sinking into economic depression
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1930
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act signed into law. Increasing
protective tariffs
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1931
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931 U. S. Steel closes its New Castle plant
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1931
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20,156 miles of local roads were taken over by the
state as a part of Governor Gifford Pinchot's program, "to get the farmers
out of the mud
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CCC workers being transported to a work site.
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1932
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Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president of United
States 15,000,000 jobless
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1933
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) founded to
provide jobs and education for young men and women
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1933
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Works Project Administration founded. Put men
and women back to work
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A current view of the New Castle Post Office that
was built in 1934.
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1933
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Probition repealed. Union Brewing Company reopens
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1934
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New United States Post Office opens on the square
in New Castle
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1934
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Penn Power deeds Cascade Park to the city of New Castle
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1935
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Demonstrators arrested during strike at Johnson Bronze
for distributing Communist literature
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Workers at the "Pants Factory."
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1935
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Social Security legislation was passed providing old
age and survivor insurance
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1937
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New Castle High School defeats Paul Brown's
Massillion, Ohio, Tigers
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1937
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Sit-down strike at Pants Factory is settled
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1937
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U.S. Steel (big steel) recognizes the labor unions
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1937
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Bloody riots breakout in Youngstown, as the CIO tries
to organize little steel
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1938
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WKST, New Castle's first radio station goes on the
air
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The first trolly car in Lawrence County.
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1939
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Hitler invades Poland
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1940
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Pennsylvania Turnpike completed from Carlisle to Irwin
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1941
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in Hawaii beginning the
United States' involvement in World War II
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1941
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Streetcars stop running in New Castle
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1942
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Alcoa moves into old tin mill
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1942
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United Engineering Company built new plant in New
Castle
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When World War II ended, Lawrence County erupted in
celebration. These young patriots participate in a Victory Day
parade in downtown New Castle in 1945.
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1943
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Lawrence County experiences a labor shortage as men
are called into the armed service. Women join the work force in large
numbers
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1944
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G.I. Bill of Rights signed by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt
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1945
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War in Europe ends in May
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1945
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First atomic bomb dropped on Hirshimo Japan. Japan
surrenders. World War II ends.
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Soldiers returning from the war and their families
created a housing boom that brought suburban life to Lawrence County.
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1945
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Alcoa Plant order closed by Department of Justice
immediately after V-J Day
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1946
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Massive unemployment as men return home. Large scale
housing shortage
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1946
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Suburbs begin to grow as new housing is constructed
in the townships
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After The U.S. Steel announced in 1946 that the National
Tube Plant in Ellwood City would close, labor leader. and later State
Senator, Samuel G. Neff addressed the U.S. Steel shareholders at their
annual meeting to urge that the decision be reconsidered. Seated by
Neff is United Steelworkers leader Martin Kovach. Note the expressions
of boredom and impatience on the faces of the stockholders. The plant
did not close until 1974.
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1946
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College and trade schools double and triple enrollments
as servicement go back to school under the G.I. Bill of Rights
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1947
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U.S. Steel threatens to leave Ellwood
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1948
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United Engineering and Foundry leaves New Castle
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