So why are pretzels a big thing around the Pittsburgh area? The origin is hard to find, but Mortimore said he knows the answer. "That's from the old steel mills," Mortimore said. "When you used to ...

Within 20 years of U.S. Steel’s christening, Pittsburgh mills were producing one-third ... heated liquid metal and some impurities — old-timers called them “cinder,” he said — then ...

Pittsburgh is a steel town. Pennsylvania is forged from coal and coke and iron. Maps are peppered with the words “furnace” and “mills.” The history of metal production in the Keystone Stat ...

Tadashi Imai told reporters on Wednesday that his company has made an effort to assuage skeptics who say that the planned acquisition of the Pittsburgh ... where the steel mills are located ...