1958 calendar; Form G-18725 Rev. 1057

Pittsburgh, PA: United States Steel Corporation, 1957. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Ephemera. Very good. Format is approximately 5 inches by 7 inches. Illustrations. There is a USS trade mark at the center of an illustration at the top of the sheet. There appears to be an illustration of a steel mil around the USS logo. Below the text of United States Steel Corporation is an image of a freight train. Printed on one side only. Mostly the letters are in black but a few are in red. Calendar is a three by four column arrangement, with the left column going from January through April, the middle column going from May through August, and the right column goes from September through December. Pay period ending dates are indicated with black squares but these apply only to Dusquesne and Gary Steel. Those shown in red apply to all other works except Johnstown. The days of the week are presented as Sun through Sat. The United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X), more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe. J. P. Morgan and attorney Elbert H. Gary founded U.S. Steel on March 2, 1901 (incorporated on February 25) by combining Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company with Gary's Federal Steel Company and William Henry "Judge" Moore's National Steel Company for $492 million ($14.47 billion today). At one time, U.S. Steel was the largest steel producer and largest corporation in the world. It was capitalized at $1.4 billion ($41.18 billion today), making it the world's first billion-dollar corporation. U.S. Steel ranked 16th among United States corporations in the value of World War II production contracts. Production peaked at more than 35 million tons in 1953. Its employment was greatest in 1943 when it had more than 340,000 employees. In the postwar years, the steel industry and heavy manufacturing went through restructuring that caused a decline in US Steel's need for labor, production, and portfolio.