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Meanwhile, the steelmen take pride in keeping the plant running.

From Reuters • Sep. 3, 2014

Japan Inc., however, will not find the U.S. semiconductor industry the somnolent pushover that American steelmen or watchmakers proved to be.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since January, steelmen have been boosting prices in bits and pieces�in tubing, then tin plate for can making, followed by hot-rolled carbon and alloy plates�with only a whimper from Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

While earnings dropped year after year and the industry lagged in modernization, steelmen kept rewarding stockholders at the same level in order to present an outward picture of stability.

From Time Magazine Archive

Privately, some officials recalled with approval President Kennedy's crack about the genealogy of steelmen* and made sarcastic, and misleading, references to a fat salary increase that they thought U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive