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75-407: The location of the plant has had a long history as an industrial site. Both Horsehead Corporation and Koppers had plants on the site; Koppers unofficially incorporated the area as Kobuta . Before its industrial use, the area had been farmland owned by a local family, which included a private cemetery (albeit with unmarked graves ) that was discovered after Shell purchased the property for cleanup;

150-631: A 97 miles (156 km)-long pipeline that will lead to the cracker plant on December 20, 2018. Called the Falcon Ethane Pipeline , it will connect ethane sources in Houston, Pennsylvania , Scio, Ohio , and Cadiz, Ohio to the plant. Construction on the pipeline began in March 2019. Shell will also construct an 85,000-square-foot innovation center at the site of the plant, including labs, a "Center of Expertise", and an application hall. It

225-639: A Dow Jones share about ten years later. Under Barron ownership, Thomas F. Woodlock was editor of the Journal from 1902 to 1905. By the end of Woodlock's tenure, daily circulation for the Journal rose from 7,000 to 11,000. William Peter Hamilton became lead editorial writer in 1908, a time when the Journal began reflecting the views of Barron. Hamilton wrote what Scharff considered "daily sermons in support of free-market capitalism". Barron and his predecessors were credited with creating an atmosphere of fearless, independent financial reporting—a novelty in

300-596: A Missouri lead and zinc producer to form Zinc Corporation of America. The company suffered from worldwide record low prices for zinc in the early 2000s and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2002. Sun Capital Partners purchased the company's assets in 2003 for $ 73.6 million and renamed it Horsehead Corporation which currently produces zinc products processed from recycling and steelmaking waste. Horsehead filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Feb 2, 2016. The company had its origins in northwestern New Jersey in 1848 when two companies were created to exploit

375-491: A West Coast edition on October 21, 1929, The Wall Street Journal Pacific Coast Edition . The Pacific Coast Edition focused on California businesses and replicated some items from the regular Wall Street Journal ; however, its circulation never exceeded 3,000, and the Great Depression led numerous subscription cancellations. By 1931, Bernard Kilgore became news editor for The Wall Street Journal , having joined

450-497: A broader shift away from news content. On June 13, 2022, the Journal launched a product review website called Buy Side . The website remains free and has a distinct team from the Journal newsroom. In February 2024, the Journal laid off about 20 employees, primarily economics reporters based in Washington, D.C. Moving forward, those beats will be covered by the newspaper's New York-based business team. The next month

525-487: A buyout of New Jersey Zinc and made it a subsidiary of Horsehead Industries, Inc, a reference to the company's logo adopted in 1852. Saddled with environmental cleanup liabilities, and struggling with cash flow due to record low prices in the early 2000s, Horsehead Industries filed for bankruptcy in 2002. At its peak, the company owned and operated smelters and mines across the United States and Canada. The sites of

600-519: A century – always six columns, with the day's top stories in the first and sixth columns, "What's News" digest in the second and third, the "A-hed" feature story in the fourth (with 'hed' being jargon for headline ) and themed weekly reports in the fifth column  – the paper in 2007 decreased its broadsheet width from 15 to 12   inches while keeping the length at 22 3 ⁄ 4   inches, to save newsprint costs. News design consultant Mario Garcia collaborated on

675-556: A definitive merger agreement. The $ 5   billion sale added The Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch 's news empire, which already included Fox News Channel , Fox Business Network , London's The Times , the New York Post , and the Fox flagship station WNYW (Channel 5) and MyNetworkTV flagship WWOR (Channel 9). On December 13, 2007, shareholders representing more than 60 percent of Dow Jones's voting stock approved

750-613: A dispute that was finally resolved in 1880 by merging the two companies into the New Jersey Zinc and Iron Company. In 1897, the remaining Franklin District companies were consolidated under the umbrella of the New Jersey Zinc Company, led by Stephen S. Palmer and August Heckscher as general manager. The Palmer family controlled the company for 46 years until the death of Stephen's son Edgar in 1943, when

825-567: A donation to the Beaver County recycling center so the center could extend its operating hours. Despite a downturn in oil prices, on June 7, 2016, Shell announced it would build the plant. In a press release, Shell stated that 70% of polyethylene customers in North America are within a 700-mile (1,100 km) radius of Pittsburgh and that the location would be more cost-effective for its customers than at existing facilities along

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900-430: A few weeks later amid further restructuring, including at least eight reporters. Since 1980, the Journal has been published in multiple sections. The Journal increased its maximum issue length to 96 pages, including up to 24 color pages, in 2002. With the industry-wide decline in advertising, the Journal in 2009–10 more typically published about 50 to 60 pages per issue. As of 2012 , The Wall Street Journal had

975-595: A fire started at the company's zinc production plant in Mooresboro which forced some residents in the area to evacuate. None of the company's employees were injured and all were accounted for. The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ), also referred to simply as the Journal , is an American newspaper based in New York City , with a focus on business and finance. It operates on

1050-561: A hotel construction boom prior to the plant's site selection, as well keep the dwindling Beaver Valley Mall afloat. The Penn-Beaver Hotel of Rochester , a building dating to the 1920s, once serving as a luxury hotel, was restored due to demand from plant construction. Parts of Northern Lights Shopping Center in Economy have been demolished for redevelopment, more than likely due to the plant. However, as of January 2020, Economy Borough has not been informed of any future redevelopment plans at

1125-523: A luxury lifestyle magazine, was launched in 2008. A complement to the print newspaper, The Wall Street Journal Online , was launched in 1996 and has allowed access only by subscription from the beginning. A weekly (later daily) crossword edited by Mike Shenk was introduced in 1998. In 2003, Dow Jones began to integrate reporting of the Journal 's print and online subscribers together in Audit Bureau of Circulations statements. In 2007, it

1200-582: A major expansion outside of the United States ultimately placing its journalists in every major financial center in Europe , Asia , Latin America , Australia , and Africa . In 1970, Dow Jones bought the Ottaway newspaper chain, which at the time comprised nine dailies and three Sunday newspapers. Later, the name was changed to Dow Jones Local Media Group . The first strike affecting a Journal printing plant

1275-424: A method of illustration considered a consistent visual signature of the paper. the Journal still heavily employs the use of caricatures , including those by illustrator Ken Fallin , such as when Peggy Noonan memorialized then-recently deceased newsman Tim Russert . The use of color photographs and graphics has become increasingly common in recent years with the addition of more "lifestyle" sections. The daily

1350-635: A private company owned by Greywolf Capital Management, and renamed "American Zinc Recycling". As of August 2018, American Zinc Recycling operates six facilities: a state-of-the-art solvent-extraction and electrowinning plant in Mooresboro, NC ; a zinc powder facility in Palmerton, Pennsylvania ; and four recycling facilities located in Barnwell, South Carolina , Calumet, Illinois , Rockwood, Tennessee , and Palmerton, Pennsylvania . On April 28, 2019,

1425-411: A rail system with over 3,000 freight cars, numerous loading facilities for both trains and trucks, a water treatment plant , an office building , a laboratory , and an innovation center once construction is complete. On September 20, 2018, two of the world's largest cranes arrived on site. The largest of the pair is almost 700 feet (210 m) tall and can lift 3,500 tons at a time, and is used around

1500-570: A recommendation of Collis Potter Huntington , Dow and Jones co-founded their own news service, Dow Jones and Company , with fellow Kiernan reporter Charles Bergstresser . Dow Jones was headquartered in the basement of 15 Wall Street, the same building as Kiernan's company next to the New York Stock Exchange Building . The first products of Dow Jones & Company , the publisher of the Journal , were brief news bulletins, nicknamed flimsies , hand-delivered throughout

1575-504: A subscription model, requiring readers to pay for access to its articles and content. The Journal is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company , a division of News Corp . The first issue was published on July 8, 1889. As of 2023, the Wall Street Journal  is the largest newspaper in the United States by print circulation , with 609,650 print subscribers. It has 3.17 million digital subscribers,

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1650-559: A week from New York for the Journal . Then in 1934, Kilgore began writing a daily news digest "What's News" for the Journal front page. Kilgore's writings attracted the attention of the White House; President Franklin D. Roosevelt publicly recommended Kilgore's work about pension payments for World War I veterans and a Supreme Court decision on the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 . However,

1725-493: Is expected to be operational at the same time as the rest of the site. The opening of the cracker plant could have an economic impact on both the immediate area and the Pittsburgh metropolitan area in general. In 2016, Shell estimated the project would create 6,000 construction jobs to build the site and 600 permanent jobs for employees working at the plant. It could expand neighboring Center Township , which has already seen

1800-515: The Dow theory . Scharff regarded Dow's essays from 1899 to 1902 as "stock market classics". In the months before passing in 1902, Dow arranged to sell Dow Jones and the Journal to Clarence W. Barron , Boston correspondent for the Journal since 1889, for $ 130,000 (equivalent to $ 4,578,000 in 2023). Because Barron had financial difficulties, his wife Jessie Waldron Barron made the $ 2,500 down payment to buy Dow Jones in 1902; Clarence would first own

1875-528: The Great Depression in the United States . Barron's descendants, the Bancroft family , would continue to control the company until 2007. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 would be yet another challenge to the Journal on top of Barron's death. William Peter Hamilton died of pneumonia on December 9, 1929, aged 63. Circulation of the Journal , having surpassed 50,000 in 1928, dropped below 28,000 in

1950-528: The Gulf Coast , which unlike North Central Appalachia are susceptible to the Atlantic hurricane season . In 2015, Shell began preparing the site for future construction, moving 7.2 million cubic yards of dirt, building new bridges and a new rail line, and completing a total relocation of PA Route 18. Docking and bulkhead facilities to be used during construction were created by Alberici . Construction on

2025-551: The Journal began publishing two separate Dow Jones stock indicies, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Dow Jones Railroad Average . The first morning edition of the Journal was published on November 14, 1898. By the late 1890s, daily circulation reached 7,000. Charles Dow wrote the first "Review and Outlook" column on April 21, 1899, a front-page editorial column explaining stock prices in terms of human nature; Dow's thinking would later be known as

2100-485: The Journal continued to struggle financially, with circulation stagnant at 32,000 in 1940. Most editions were only 12 to 14 pages long, and Dow Jones made only $ 69,000 of profits on $ 2 million of revenue, mostly due to its news ticker. Scharff observed a lack of coverage about a possible U.S. role in World War II . In the 1940s, Dow Jones took steps to restructure the Journal . Kilgore was named managing editor of

2175-538: The Journal copy desk in 1929. He began writing a column for the Pacific Coast Edition called "Dear George", a feature explaining obscure financial topics in simpler, plain rhetoric. "Dear George" sharply contrasted with other Wall Street Journal articles that relied on jargon that was incomprehensible even to its own reporters. The Eastern edition of the Journal began carrying "Dear George", and beginning in 1932, Kilgore wrote "Dear George" three times

2250-613: The Journal had not yet entered popular understanding. The first major journalism award for the Journal was a Sigma Delta Chi public service award, for stories in late 1952 exposing links between Empire Mail Order and organized crime. These stories followed news that Howard Hughes sold RKO Pictures to Empire Mail Order. Circulation of the Journal continued increasing throughout the 1950s, to 205,000 in 1951, 400,000 in 1955, and over 500,000 by 1957. Warren H. Phillips became managing editor of The Wall Street Journal in 1957 after being promoted from Chicago bureau manager. Phillips

2325-567: The Journal in 1941 and Dow Jones CEO in 1945. Scharff described Kilgore's approach to journalism: "A Journal story had to satisfy its sophisticated readership, but it also had to be clear enough not to discourage neophytes." Additionally, Kilgore aimed to have the newspaper appeal to a national audience, by making the East Coast and West Coast editions of the Journal more homogeneous. Until printing presses and reporting bureaus could be opened on location, photographs could not be included in

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2400-433: The Journal launched a weekend edition, delivered to all subscribers, which marked a return to Saturday publication after a lapse of some 50 years. The move was designed in part to attract more consumer advertising. In 2005, the Journal reported a readership profile of about 60 percent top management, an average income of $ 191,000, an average household net worth of $ 2.1   million, and an average age of 55. In 2007,

2475-528: The Journal launched a worldwide expansion of its website to include major foreign-language editions. The paper had also shown an interest in buying the rival Financial Times . The nameplate is unique in having a period at the end. Front-page advertising in the Journal was re-introduced on September 5, 2006. This followed similar introductions in the European and Asian editions in late 2005. After presenting nearly identical front-page layouts for half

2550-419: The Journal to charge similarly inflated advertising rates, as the advertisers would think that they reached more readers than they actually did. In addition, the Journal agreed to run "articles" featuring Executive Learning Partnership, presented as news, but effectively advertising. The case came to light after a Belgian Wall Street Journal employee, Gert Van Mol , informed Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton about

2625-593: The Journal was four pages long, with dimensions of 20 3/4 × 15 1/2 inches and cost of $ 0.02 per copy. In its early days, the Journal had "a tedious, blow-by-blow account of the day's business without benefit of editing," wrote Edward E. Scharff in 1986. For nearly 40 years, the front page had a four-column format, with the middle two devoted to news briefs and the farther two filled with advertisements for brokerage services. The Journal focused on stories from news wires and listings of stocks and bonds, while occasionally covering sports or politics. One front-page story on

2700-630: The Journal . In 1947 , the paper won its first Pulitzer Prize for William Henry Grimes's editorials . Also in May 1947, the Journal launched a Southwest edition based in Dallas . The newspaper also added a new slogan in 1949: "Everywhere, Men Who Get Ahead in Business Read The Wall Street Journal ." Circulation grew by nearly four-fold, from 32,000 in 1940 to 140,000 in 1949; however, Kilgore's editorial reforms of

2775-566: The Little Rock Central High School integration crisis went beyond the largely visual, emotional elements on newspapers and television, in depicting local citizens as supportive of integration in contrast to Governor Orval Faubus and other local politicians. During the 1962–1963 New York City newspaper strike , the Journal was the only daily newspaper to continue printing in New York City; however, after

2850-561: The iron and zinc deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill in Sussex County, New Jersey . The Sussex Zinc and Copper Mining and Manufacturing Corporation was incorporated in 1848 for the purpose of mining zinc, and the New Jersey Exploration and Mining Company was incorporated in 1849 for the purpose of mining iron. The founding partners were the same for both companies, and in 1852 the companies merged to form

2925-441: The 1930s, and the newspaper downsized from 28 to 16 pages in the 1930s as well. Dow Jones president Hugh Bancroft retired in 1932; following his death in 1933, his widow Jane Waldron Bancroft appointed Kenneth Craven "Casey" Hogate as new company president. Hogate envisioned expanding the scope of the Journal to a "more general business paper" beyond stock and bond numbers. Expanding westward, The Wall Street Journal debuted

3000-570: The New Jersey Zinc Corporation. The company adopted the horsehead, one of the state symbols of New Jersey, as its logo. Because of ambiguous deeds, overlapping claims, and misunderstanding over the nature of the ores at Franklin and Sterling Hill, mining companies in the district were in constant litigation. From 1868 to 1880, the New Jersey Zinc Company fought a legal battle with Moses Taylor 's Franklin Iron Company,

3075-506: The Pennsylvania site on March 15, 2012. The deal was one of the largest tax incentives in Pennsylvania's history. Shell began leasing the bulk of the property from Horsehead in 2012, which promptly closed the zinc plant on the site and began cleanup of the site in preparation of potentially opening a cracker plant on the site, which would be used to convert natural gas products into ethylene and then into plastics. Shell had selected

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3150-793: The U.S. Court of Bankruptcy in Delaware. Subsequent to the bankruptcy filing many shareholders wrote into the court alleging foul play by Greywolf and other members of the ad-hoc group of noteholders. On May 2, in the US Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, Judge Sontchi entered an order for the formation of an official committee of equity holders, declaring, "Something Smells fishy to the court". Shareholders in Horsehead included Mohnish Pabrai , Matthew Peterson, Phil Town and Guy Spier Horsehead emerged from bankruptcy in September 2016 as

3225-559: The changes. Dow Jones said it would save $ 18   million a year in newsprint costs across all The Wall Street Journal papers. This move eliminated one column of print, pushing the "A-hed" out of its traditional location (though the paper now usually includes a quirky feature story on the right side of the front page, sandwiched among the lead stories). The paper uses ink dot drawings called hedcuts , introduced in 1979 and originally created by Kevin Sprouls , in addition to photographs,

3300-595: The committee said that News Corporation had violated its agreement by not notifying the committee earlier. However, Brauchli said he believed that new owners should appoint their own editor. A 2007 Journal article quoted charges that Murdoch had made and broken similar promises in the past. One large shareholder commented that Murdoch has long "expressed his personal, political and business biases through his newspapers and television stations". Former Times assistant editor Fred Emery remembers an incident when "Mr. Murdoch called him into his office in March 1982 and said he

3375-507: The company informed living descendants in the area of the skeletal remains. Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia engaged in a tax competition for the plant. In 2012, Pennsylvania structured a deal requiring Shell to invest at least $ 1 billion in Pennsylvania and create at least 2,500 construction jobs in exchange for a 25-year tax incentive of $ 66 million per year and tied to production, reducing Shell's tax by up to 20 per cent. The combined incentive could reach $ 1.65 billion. Shell announced

3450-505: The company's acquisition by News Corporation. In an editorial page column, publisher L. Gordon Crovitz said the Bancrofts and News Corporation had agreed that the Journal ' s news and opinion sections would preserve their editorial independence from their new corporate parent. A special committee was established to oversee the paper's editorial integrity. When the managing editor Marcus Brauchli resigned on April 22, 2008,

3525-531: The day to traders at the stock exchange . Beginning in 1883, they were aggregated in a printed daily summary called the Customers' Afternoon Letter , sold for $ 1.50 per month compared to the $ 15 a month Dow Jones bulletin service. Dow Jones opened its own printing press at 71 Broadway in 1885. Beginning July 8, 1889, the Afternoon Letter was renamed The Wall Street Journal . The debut issue of

3600-599: The debut edition of The Wall Street Journal was a raw wire report about the boxing match between John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain , with varying accounts of the fight citing The Boston Globe , the Baltimore American , and anonymous sources. Seldom did The Wall Street Journal publish analysis or opinion articles in its early decades. In addition to a private wire to Boston, the Journal had reporters communicate via telegraph from Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Albany , and London. In 1896,

3675-492: The early days of business journalism . In 1921, Barron's , the United States's premier financial weekly, was founded. Scharff described the newspaper in the Barron era as "Wall Street's public defender" against regulatory efforts by the U.S. Congress. Circulation continued to rise, reaching 18,750 to 1920 and 52,000 briefly in 1928. Barron died in 1928, a year before Black Tuesday , the stock market crash that greatly affected

3750-444: The estate of Edgar Palmer was forced to sell its controlling interest in order to pay inheritance taxes. In 1966, the company agreed to merge with Gulf and Western Industries and become a subsidiary of that conglomerate . The passage of environmental protection laws in the 1970s turned New Jersey Zinc's legacy of environmental pollution into a liability. In 1981, former officials of Gulf and Western's Natural Resources Division led

3825-536: The factory to release 2.2 million tons of carbon dioxide each year. Shell has stated they believe the plant's emissions will be below that level. Residents have also expressed concerns about the network of pipelines that will carry ethane to the plant, as existing pipelines have already caused problems. In September 2018, a landslide caused by heavy rains caused the Revolution pipeline , operated by Sunoco parent Energy Transfer Partners , to explode. One house

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3900-483: The former "Business & Tech" and "Money & Investing" sections. The new "Life & Arts" section took the place of "Personal Journal" and "Arena". In addition, the Journal 's "Greater New York" coverage was reduced and moved to the main section of paper. The section was shuttered on July 9, 2021. A 2018 survey conducted by Gallup and the Knight Foundation found that The Wall Street Journal

3975-534: The globe on megaprojects . The smaller of the two is 430 feet (130 m) tall and can lift about 2,300 tons in its current configuration. On September 25, 2018 in a conference with the Wall Street Journal , Ben van Beurden , the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, said that the project is both within budget and ahead of schedule. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection approved two permits for

4050-481: The hypothetical backstory of the woman whose buried bones were found during excavation for the complex, which he saw driving from West Virginia to his studio in Pennsylvania. Horsehead Corporation Horsehead Holding Corporation , formerly The New Jersey Zinc Company , was an American producer of zinc and related materials based in Pittsburgh . The operations of the historic company are currently conducted as American Zinc Recycling. The New Jersey Zinc Company

4125-521: The paper laid off another five people from its standards and ethics team. In April, the paper laid off at least 11 people from its video and social media desks. In May, the Journal cut six editorial staff positions from its Hong Kong bureau and another two reporter jobs in Singapore . Moving forward the paper will shift its focus in the region from Hong Kong to Singapore with new the creation of several new jobs at that bureau. More staff were laid off

4200-402: The paper's "combination of respected news pages and conservative editorial pages seem to be a magic formula for generating trust across the ideological spectrum." From 2019 through 2022, the Journal partnered with Facebook to provide content for the social-media site's "News Tab". Facebook paid the Journal in excess of $ 10 million during that period, terminating the relationship as part of

4275-406: The plant itself began on November 8, 2017, and is expected to continue through the early 2020s. As of 2019, over 5,000 employees are working on construction. The site will have four processing units – three of which will be polyethelene reactors and one an ethane cracker – a natural gas power plant to support both the plant and the local electric grid, a 900 ft (270 m)-long cooling tower ,

4350-530: The print edition. By June 2013, the monthly cost for a subscription to the online edition was $ 22.99, or $ 275.88 annually, excluding introductory offers. Digital subscription rates increased dramatically to $ 443.88 per year as its popularity increased over print, with first-time subscribers paying $ 187.20 per year. On November 30, 2004, Oasys Mobile and The Wall Street Journal released an app that would allow users to access content from The Wall Street Journal Online via their mobile phones. In September 2005,

4425-427: The project up a year solely as a result of the proposed plant. In late 2015, a group of environmentalists submitted an appeal to Pennsylvania's Environmental Hearing Board to challenge the air quality permit that was granted for the proposed plant; the group argued that the state should have required stricter monitoring requirements for fugitive pollutant emissions from the plant. The state of Pennsylvania will allow

4500-418: The proposed plant, and in a worst-case scenario prepare the area land for at least some sort of future industrial use if Shell decided not to build there. This included building a massive bridge over PA 18, commenced in 2015, to connect both sides of the property without requiring an intersection along the route, as well as a Shell-funded rerouting of PA 18 and infrastructure improvements to I-376. Shell also gave

4575-400: The questionable practice. As a result, the then Wall Street Journal Europe CEO and Publisher Andrew Langhoff was fired after it was found out he personally pressured journalists into covering one of the newspaper's business partners involved in the issue. Since September 2011, all the online articles that resulted from the ethical wrongdoing carry a Wall Street Journal disclaimer informing

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4650-431: The readers about the circumstances in which they were created. The Journal , along with its parent Dow Jones & Company, was among the businesses News Corporation spun off in 2013 as the new News Corp . In November 2016, in an effort to cut costs, the Journal 's editor-in-chief, Gerard Baker , announced layoffs of staff and consolidation of its print sections. The new "Business & Finance" section combined

4725-567: The second-most in the nation after The New York Times . WSJ publishes international editions in various regions around the world, including Europe and Asia. The editorial pages of the Journal are typically center-right in their positions. The newspaper has won 39 Pulitzer Prizes . A predecessor to The Wall Street Journal was the Kiernan News Agency founded by John J. Kiernan in 1869. In 1880, Kiernan hired Charles H. Dow and Edward D. Jones as reporters. On

4800-483: The site due to the ongoing Marcellus natural gas trend and the site's prime location within the Marcellus Shale . By 2015, after executing several short-term lease extensions, Shell purchased the property outright from Horsehead, and subsequently purchasing other nearby properties, effectively absorbing all of Kobuta. Shell pledged with Beaver County officials on environmental cleanup regardless if it opened

4875-600: The site. In 2018 Mount Airy Casinos won the licensing to build a satellite casino just 12 miles (19 km) north of the cracker plant, although that plan was rejected by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board in November 2019 The plant could become a factor spurring long-delayed highway expansion projects. The Southern Beltway , which had already confirmed would be extending its second leg in 2020 from U.S. Route 22 to Interstate 79 , moved

4950-835: The smelters at De Pue, Illinois and Palmerton, Pennsylvania , and the Eagle Mine in Eagle County, Colorado are listed as EPA Superfund sites. On July 22, 2010, two Horsehead workers were killed at a plant in Monaca, Pennsylvania . An explosion occurred in a refinery column and the workers suffocated due to smoke inhalation. The 1954 film Salt of the Earth was based on the 1951 strike against New Jersey Zinc Company’s Empire Zinc mine in Bayard, New Mexico . In February 2016, Horsehead Corporation filed for Chapter 11 protection in

5025-405: The strike, Kilgore ordered the printing presses moved from New York to Chicopee, Massachusetts effective July 1, 1963. Although Kilgore did not publicly explain his rationale then, Scharff wrote in 1986 that the move resulted from feuds between Dow Jones and the printer's union. By Kilgore's death in 1967, Wall Street Journal circulation exceeded one million. In 1967, Dow Jones Newswires began

5100-440: Was Jewish, in contrast to the largely midwestern, WASP management of the Journal at the time. Phillips, a former socialist, shifted his political views in the 1950s to reflect social liberalism and fiscal conservatism. Under Phillips, the Journal provided in-depth coverage of the civil rights movement , on the grounds that it "was something that the average businessman needed to know about". For instance, Journal coverage of

5175-612: Was a three-day strike at Silver Spring, Maryland , in 1967; that would be followed by a weeklong strike by truck drivers at the South Brunswick, New Jersey , in 1970. The period from 1971 to 1997 brought about a series of launches, acquisitions, and joint ventures, including " Factiva ", The Wall Street Journal Asia , The Wall Street Journal Europe , the WSJ.com website, Dow Jones Indexes, MarketWatch , and "WSJ Weekend Edition". In 2007, News Corp. acquired Dow Jones. WSJ. ,

5250-548: Was awarded by the Society for News Design World's Best Designed Newspaper award for 1994 and 1997. On May 2, 2007, News Corporation made an unsolicited takeover bid for Dow Jones , offering $ 60 per share for stock that had been selling for $ 36.33 per share. The Bancroft family , which controlled more than 60% of the voting stock, at first rejected the offer, but later reconsidered its position. Three months later, on August 1, 2007, News Corporation and Dow Jones entered into

5325-474: Was commonly believed to be the largest paid-subscription news site on the Web, with 980,000 paid subscribers. Since then, digital subscription has risen to 1.3 million as of September 2018, falling to number two behind The New York Times with 3 million digital subscriptions. In May 2008, an annual subscription to the digital edition of The Wall Street Journal cost $ 119 for those who do not have subscriptions to

5400-476: Was considered the third most-accurate and fourth most-unbiased news organization among the general public, tenth among Democrats , and second among Republicans . In an October 2018 Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations, The Wall Street Journal was ranked the most trusted news organization by Americans. Joshua Benton of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University wrote that

5475-555: Was considering firing Times editor Harold Evans . Mr. Emery says he reminded Mr. Murdoch of his promise that editors couldn't be fired without the independent directors' approval. 'God, you don't take all that seriously, do you?' Mr. Murdoch answered, according to Mr. Emery." Murdoch eventually forced out Evans. In 2011, The Guardian found evidence that the Journal had artificially inflated its European sales numbers, by paying Executive Learning Partnership for purchasing 16% of European sales. These inflated sales numbers then enabled

5550-477: Was destroyed, other homes and vehicles were damaged, power lines were downed, and roads were closed; no one was injured. In 2020, there were growing doubts and concerns about the realization of the plant as it will not be as profitable as expected, due to the fallen price for plastic, and contribute to global warming and plastic pollution on a large scale. Morgantown, West Virginia country-folk musician Charles Wesley Godwin wrote his song "Cranes of Potter" about

5625-490: Was for many years the largest producer of zinc and zinc products in the United States. The company thrived in the period from 1897 to 1966, at which time it merged with Gulf and Western Industries . It continued to operate as a subsidiary of Gulf+Western until 1981, when a management-led buyout acquired it under the name of Horsehead Industries. The New Jersey Zinc Company remained a subsidiary of Horsehead Industries until 1987, when Horsehead merged it with St. Joe Minerals

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