Question
British businesses producing this good in Port Talbot were nationalized by Harold Wilson in 1967. A Sheffield resident who revolutionized the production of this good lends his name to an Alabama town whose Amazon workers failed to unionize in 2021. Responding to a prize sponsored by Napoleon, Friedrich Krupp built a factory in 1811 named for manufacturing this material. The London headquarters of the Hanseatic League was named for a (*) “yard” of this material. It’s not coal, but Robert Schuman helped organize a multinational economic community named for this good. Production of this good was made more efficient by an invention of Henry Bessemer. For 10 points, name this alloy essential to building skyscrapers. ■END■
ANSWER: steel [accept steelyard; accept European Coal and Steel Community; prompt on iron or pig iron or metals or alloys] (The town is Bessemer, AL, named after Henry.)
<Michael Bentley, History - European - 1900+> ~22450~ <Editor: Michael Bentley>
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Andrew Shi | Thomas Jefferson A | Barrington A | 51 | 0 |
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Kritanu Saha | Mercer County | Waukee | 56 | 0 |
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Ren Giusti | Norman | Stevenson B | 58 | 0 |
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Charles Young | Barrington A | Thomas Jefferson A | 76 | 10 |
Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Mira Loma | Woodland | 79 | 10 |
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