Sonja Hutson
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2,667 appearances
44 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Sonja Hutson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It is, yes.
Charles Schwab, no, not the man who founded the financial services company, but this Charles Schwab bought Bethlehem Steel in the early 1900s.
He pioneered the so-called H-beam that became Bethlehem Steel's specialty.
Andrea's dad, Mike Zaya, is a former executive at Bethlehem Steel, and he picks up Schwab's story from here.
And the company just grew from there.
Andrea says it really became a powerhouse in World War I and World War II when the military needed a lot of steel to fight those conflicts.
Outside of wartime in the 20th century, it was all about building cars and skyscrapers.
The corporation helped build everything from the New York City skyline to my hometown's iconic landmark, the Golden Gate Bridge.
Manufacturing was a big part of the national economy at this time, too.
According to federal government data, it made up 27% of gross domestic product in 1957.
Today, that number is less than 10%.
During this time of abundance for Bethlehem Steel, it was a huge player in the local economy.
But then the first crack started to form.
The 1959 steel strike.
500,000 workers across the country walked off the job because of a dispute over wages and benefits.
More disruptions came in the 1970s.
The biggest being that a new way of making steel started taking off.
Mini mills.
They were, as the name might suggest, smaller.
And they didn't make steel from scratch.
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