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At two minutes to midnight on the first Sunday in June, the head of Canada's biggest steel company and the rest of the night shift let out a whoop as (...)
At two minutes to midnight on the first Sunday in June, the head of Canada's biggest steel company and the rest of the night shift let out a whoop as (...)

At two minutes to midnight on the first Sunday in June, the head of Canada's biggest steel company and the rest of the night shift let out a whoop as (...)

Date9/12/1980
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Original Toronto Star caption: At two minutes to midnight on the first Sunday in June; the head of Canada's biggest steel company and the rest of the night shift let out a whoop as a shimmering; white-hot; moving ribbon of steel crept slowly into view and cooled to a pulsating fiery red glow. Hard hat firmly in place; Peter Gordon; chairman of Stelco Inc. and a steel man for 35 years; was watching the birth of the world's first brand new steel complex in eight years - the culmination of the first stage of the largest single project ever undertaken in the history of the Canadian steel industry. [Incomplete]
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0106831F
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