It's really an ironic shame that the region - which had various flavors of corrupt politicians always promising to "bring back the jobs" it lost from the Steel

It's really an ironic shame that the region - which had various flavors of corrupt politicians always promising to "bring back the jobs" it lost from the Steel Mill Days had this concentration of activity in this nascent explosive industry: there was a huge concentration of BBS numbers in the Cleveland/Youngstown/Akron area code and rather than trying to grow the industry they just let it float away... While clutching their pearls about "the jobs".