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In February 1939, an entrepreneur of Irish descent named Thomas James
Neilan decided to go into the steel business.
Neilan believed that he could
succeed even though times were tough in Los Angeles just then. Like the
rest of America, the city had weathered ten long, grinding years of the Great
Depression, which had left tens of thousands of its residents unemployed and
a multitude of local businesses struggling to survive.
FOUNDATIONOF STEEL
1939-1959
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