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Carnegie
Steel Mill and Furnaces, New Castle, PA. |
1930 |
Country
sinking into economic depression |
| 1930 |
Hawley-Smoot
Tariff Act signed into law. Increasing protective tariffs |
| 1931 |
931
U. S. Steel closes its New Castle plant |
| 1931 |
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 |
| 
CCC
workers being transported to a work site. |
1932 |
Franklin
D. Roosevelt elected president of United States 15,000,000
jobless |
| 1933 |
Civilian
Conservation Corps (CCC) founded to provide jobs and education
for young men and women |
| 1933 |
Works
Project Administration founded. Put men and women back to
work |
| 
A
current view of the New Castle Post Office that was built in 1934. |
1933 |
Probition
repealed. Union Brewing Company reopens |
| 1934 |
New
United States Post Office opens on the square in New Castle |
| 1934 |
Penn
Power deeds Cascade Park to the city of New Castle |
| 1935 |
Demonstrators
arrested during strike at Johnson Bronze for distributing Communist
literature |
| 
Workers
at the "Pants Factory." |
1935 |
Social
Security legislation was passed providing old age and survivor insurance |
| 1937 |
New
Castle High School defeats Paul Brown's Massillion, Ohio,
Tigers |
| 1937 |
Sit-down
strike at Pants Factory is settled |
| 1937 |
U.S.
Steel (big steel) recognizes the labor unions |
| 1937 |
Bloody
riots breakout in Youngstown, as the CIO tries to organize little
steel |
| 1938 |
WKST,
New Castle's first radio station goes on the air |
| 
The
first trolly car in Lawrence County. |
1939 |
Hitler
invades Poland |
| 1940 |
Pennsylvania
Turnpike completed from Carlisle to Irwin |
| 1941 |
Japanese
attack Pearl Harbor in Hawaii beginning the United States' involvement
in World War II |
| 1941 |
Streetcars
stop running in New Castle |
| 1942 |
Alcoa
moves into old tin mill |
| 1942 |
United
Engineering Company built new plant in New Castle |
| 
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. |
1943 |
Lawrence
County experiences a labor shortage as men are called into the armed
service. Women join the work force in large numbers |
| 1944 |
G.I.
Bill of Rights signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 1945 |
War
in Europe ends in May |
| 1945 |
First
atomic bomb dropped on Hirshimo Japan. Japan surrenders. World
War II ends. |
| 
Soldiers
returning from the war and their families created a housing boom
that brought suburban life to Lawrence County. |
1945 |
Alcoa
Plant order closed by Department of Justice immediately after V-J
Day |
| 1946 |
Massive
unemployment as men return home. Large scale housing shortage |
| 1946 |
Suburbs
begin to grow as new housing is constructed in the townships |
| 
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. |
1946 |
College
and trade schools double and triple enrollments as servicement go
back to school under the G.I. Bill of Rights |
| 1947 |
U.S.
Steel threatens to leave Ellwood |
| 1948 |
United
Engineering and Foundry leaves New Castle |
