[7] The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against the company and fourteen other corporations involved in the manufacturing and sale of tin plate on February 17, 1936, accusing them of collusion, dating to an agreement made October 1934 to suppress the sale and distribution of certain grades and qualities of tin plate.
[1] The American Sheet and Tin Plate Company opened their Morgantown operations in 1906 after purchasing the layout for the failed Morgantown Tin Plate Mill Company from local industrialist George C. Sturgiss.
Sturgiss then sold the land and the factory to the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company in 1905.
[11] The plant did shutdown occasionally due to droughts, as in September 1908, and steel shortages, like the one in January 1913.
[12] The largest shutdown occurred on June 21, 1931 as a result of the Great Depression and had the factory closed until July 24, 1933.