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Even a modern, 28-stories-tall blast furnace couldn't outlive the dying local industry it fed. Yet when [Dorothy] 6 was shuttered in 1984, erasing some 2,850 jobs, neither was it the end of the story. Displaced workers organized to try to convince U.S. Steel or some other investor to fire Dorothy back up. And hundreds of them united to stand vigil over Dorothy, to make sure she didn't rot nor the company strip her bare.
[James McManus] grew up in Donora, where his dad, his uncles -- seemingly every adult male he knew -- was a mill worker. McManus, 30, researched the Dorothy 6 story at the Steel Industry Heritage Corporation, but Dorothy 6 isn't a steel-industry historical play so much as a steelworker family drama, much like his earlier The Night They Drugged the Orange.See the full content of this document
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Dorothy 6 Revisited
Dorothy 6 was the biggest blast furnace in the Mon Valley, and among the most productive in the world. Located at U.S. Steel...
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