Monumental Life Insurance Company

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Richly entertaining, Monumental Life is the compelling biography of a Hoover's industry editor ... er, uh, actually Monumental Life Insurance is a company that offers life and health insurance products. A subsidiary of Dutch insurance giant AEGON, Monumental Life Insurance targets lower- and middle-income markets with a variety of products, including traditional individual life insurance, pre-need funeral insurance, and retirement savings products. In addition to selling through its own agents, the company markets through funeral directors and former military officers, who sell life insurance and retirement products to service members.

United States Steel Corp

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Steel crazy after all these years, Pittsburgh-based United States Steel (U.S. Steel) is the nation's #2 integrated steelmaker (behind Mittal Steel USA). With mills in Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Slovakia, U.S. Steel produces sheet and semifinished steel, tubular and plate steel, and tin products. The company's customers are primarily in the automotive, construction, petrochemical, and steel service center industries. In addition, U.S. Steel offers services such as mineral resource management and engineering and consulting. The company acquired tubular goods maker Lone Star Technologies for $2.1 billion and spent another $1.1 billion for Stelco in 2007.