[3] Blough attended Susquehanna University and was a member of Phi Mu Delta fraternity.

[6] President Kennedy believed that this price increase violated an unwritten agreement that he had brokered between the industry and the United Steel Workers union, and called a press conference in response, held on April 11, 1962.

[7] In nationally televised remarks, the President described Blough as one of: “a tiny handful of steel executives whose pursuit of private power and profit exceeds their sense of public responsibility...

In the last 24 hours we had their answer.”[7] Blough and U.S. Steel rolled back the threatened price hike.

Having lost his effort to raise prices at U.S. Steel during an inflationary period in the early 1960s, he "made it his personal mission to tame the construction unions through (the Roundtable)," effectively blaming inflation on workers' wages.

[13] Bough maintained a residence in the Mellon-U.S. Steel Building in Pittsburgh, PA as well as an apartment on Park Avenue in Manhattan.

He spent much of his free time in a large Victorian Home in Hawley, PA that had been passed down through his wife's family.