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ECSC

(Encyclopedia)ECSC: see European Coal and Steel Community. ...

pontoon

(Encyclopedia)pontoon, one of a number of floats used chiefly to support a bridge, to raise a sunken ship, or to float a hydroplane or a floating dock. Pontoons have been built of wood, of hides stretched over wick...

Bellflower, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Bellflower, city (2020 pop. 79,190), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1957. It is mainly residential with some light industry (fabricated metal products,...

Riverdale

(Encyclopedia)Riverdale, village (1990 pop. 13,671), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb adjacent to Chicago; inc. 1892. Its large steel mill closed with the national decline of the industry. ...

Fraser, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Fraser, city (2020 pop. 14,352), Macomb co., SE Mich., a suburb of Detroit; inc. as a village 1894, as a city 1957. Automated machine tools and steel pr...

Garfield Heights

(Encyclopedia)Garfield Heights, city (2020 pop. 29,781), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a residential and industrial suburb adjacent to Cleveland; founded 1904, inc. 1932. It...

Dolton

(Encyclopedia)Dolton, village (2020 pop. 22,006), Cook co., NE Ill., on the Little Calumet River, S of Chicago; settled 1832, inc. 1892. Steel, aluminum products, gla...

Blaydon

(Encyclopedia)Blaydon, town, Gateshead metropolitan district, NE England, on the Tyne River in the Newcastle upon Tyne metropolitan area. It manufactures iron, steel ...

Carteret

(Encyclopedia)Carteret, borough (2020 pop. 25,326), Middlesex co., NE N.J., on Arthur Kill, opposite Staten Island; inc. 1906. It has oil and copper refineries and in...

Chiba

(Encyclopedia)Chiba chēˈbä [key], city, capital of Chiba prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay...